Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:27:11 -0500 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD or PCBSD? Message-ID: <20080118092711.t7725zf7xckwswck@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <47907A2B.601@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> References: <94136a2c0801180110v2e43ea2esc96393c4c3ca56f@mail.gmail.com> <47907A2B.601@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>
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Quoting Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com>: > Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > ........ >> >> Which is a better solution for a home user? >> >> Thank you very much for your practical recommendations! > ....... > > I have had great success using PCBSD on various acers, I eventually > got fed up with it being not quite identical to FreeBSD and I now > have FreeBSD 6.2 on my current acer laptop (a 1680). > -- I was unable to even boot my Wife's Acer (an Aspire 5520) with FreeBSD 6.3-pre or 7.0-pre. I'm also pretty sure the Acer wireless is NOT supported by any native drivers; I haven't seen any success or failure stories from anyone trying NDIS. I expect the same will be true with PC-BSD, since AFAIK their kernel is pretty much stock FreeBSD (main differences are in the installer and package management). JN
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