> That's exactly what I'm doing right now. For example when I need > to use my Pinnacle DC10+ (Zoran) card, I simply reboot into Gentoo, > do the capture, and then reboot into FreeBSD to run the rest of > mjpegtools. Same for MIDI recording etc... or other stuff that's > currently unavailable within FreeBSD. > > The problem with this is that there are two systems to care for: > my primary FreeBSD environment, and a minimal Gentoo environment > just for a few programs.
There is another problem with dual-booting. FreeBSD isn't available when Linux is running, and visa-versa. If you have jobs that need to run at specific times and the machine is running the wrong OS at that time, you lose. I suspect that a lot of people only need a driver or two from Linux. Userland stuff tends to be fairly portable between BSD and Linux. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
