From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 28 20: 8:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3797A37B401 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:08:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from pacman.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@pacman.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.150]) by berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id XAA29936; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 23:08:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by pacman.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id XAA10489; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 23:08:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 23:08:27 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@pacman.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Terry Omond Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware In-Reply-To: <002301c059a6$bc843cc0$4601a8c0@terry> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Terry Omond wrote: > I want to build a machine to run FreeBSD. Appendix F of the FreeBSD handbook appears to be a few years out of date. Is there any current information available on hassle free hardware for FreeBSD? Yes it does seem out of date. Jordan is a busy guy. I don't know if there is anything like it up to date. You may want to check ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE/HARDWARE.TXT for the latest supported hardware. Best bet after that unfortunately is to look through the mailing list archives to see what others experience has been. Go through until you find well supported items for each piece. As one part somebody's personal opinion at the Xfree86 project is that matrox video cards are particularly well supported. It seems that few people have enough personal experience with a wide range of hardware to make the recommendations and those that do are too busy. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message