Current Gentoo user

[Julian H. Stacey]

Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:12:55AM -0800, Grant wrote:
> > What about skype, wengo, and vmware workstation?  Do they work on FreeBSD?
> I have no idea, I'm afraid.  Hopefully someone else on the list can
> answer that.  I've never used any of the three.

A VOIP (ie Skype) Asterisk developer (Emil Stoyanov. cc'd) who is
FreeBSD (& Linux) based did 2 presentations in Munich this year:

Longer more technical version to Berkeley In Munich group 2007_01_17
	http://www.berklix.org/bim/talks/asterisk_overview_2007_01_17/

Shorter less technical overview to Munich Faraday group 20th April 2007
 http://www.berklix.com/free/talk/presentations/export/4_voip+bsd_v_linux_emil/

re. sound
> I still haven't used FreeBSD on a system with a 64b processor

Works on mine, uname & dmesg below:
FreeBSD fire.js.berklix.net 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0:
 Mon Sep 17 23:01:21 CEST 2007     jhs at fire.js.berklix.net:
 /usr1/src/sys/amd64/compile/FIRE64.small  amd64

CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ (2010.07-MHz 686-class CPU)
pcm0: <VIA VT8237> port 0xe400-0xe4ff irq 22 at device 17.5 on pci0
pcm0: <Avance Logic ALC658 AC97 Codec>
pcm0: <VIA DXS Enabled: DXS 4 / SGD 1 / REC 1>
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