Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 15:34:42 +0530 From: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd120@gmail.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Questions on FreeBSD today Message-ID: <6a506d980807090304i1b7bde5ah66fcc9690b7b0f1e@mail.gmail.com>
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I've been away from FreeBSD for a few years -- I briefly gave 7.0-CURRENT a spin last year, on an old laptop, but didn't stick with it. However, I'll likely be getting a new laptop soon and I'm tired of linux (and especially tired of Ubuntu, which thinks it's smarter than me.) So I'm seriously considering FreeBSD 7. On the plus side, I've done quite a lot of C programming (though not system-level) since I last used FreeBSD, so I can try some hackery if I need to. On the minus side, I don't want to spend all my time fixing ports or patching device drivers -- I'd rather have a system that just works, and lets me focus on my work. Anyway, I have a few questions: 1. My biggest peeve was the tendency to crash when pulling out USB memory sticks (especially if they were mounted, but sometimes even if they were unmounted). Kris Kennaway told me in a private mail that this has been fixed in 8-CURRENT. Is that so, and has it been MFC'd? 2. Can I run 32-bit linux binaries (like Adobe Reader) on a 64-bit FreeBSD setup? 3. How good is Wine on FreeBSD? Can I expect it to be almost as good as Wine on Linux? 4. Is UFS/gjournal at least as reliable as, say, ext3? I don't want long fsck's every time I shutdown uncleanly. 5. Do linux binaries that require ALSA (eg, flash plugin 9/10) work? 6. Can I run Windows Vista (likely to be preinstalled -- no choice) under Xen or qemu? 7. How good is power management, in particular cpufreq and ACPI suspend-to-RAM? (I suppose the answer depends on the laptop model.) Thanks, Rahul
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