Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 21:20:50 +0100 From: Xinizul Xinizul <xinizul@gmail.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Hello Message-ID: <4d07305604110512203c73604e@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello all: Just to make happy our forum leader ;-) I'm going to post my feelings about FreeBSD as a beginner: I'm soiftware developer new to FreeBSD (but not new to Linux for instance). I decide to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 because I want to install definetely something stable and .... free of course I don't understand people going into Linux because they want a free distro and then installs something like SUSE, Mandrake or RedHat. Well in fact I'm waitin for release 5.3 to appear to install definetely FreeBSD and start to building my own work station and services for fun. One of the things I more like about this distro is: 1) Support for hardware is good: It detect my SATA hardrive (SUSE 9.0 didn't a month ago) but must improve (it didn't detect my ASUS WIFI@home card :-( ... but I'm waitin for 5.3 and its Project Evil to see how it imports Windows Drivers !!! 2) Excellent the "Handbook": Really really good , ideal for beginners. 3) Easy Setup -except for the partition configuration that still it is a bit confusing- 4) Linux compatibility support must improve since I've tried to compile some dirver (yes for my WIFI card) using the sourcecode tar provided by the manufacturer but didin't work (well in fact this is a problem of the manufacturer for not having into account FreeBSD users : http://www.ralinktech.com.tw) 5) I like the community, I think it is well organized through the port mechanism. 6) Nice Logo of course Interesting Spanish forums and FTP sites. One request if possible ... it would like if FreeBSD site could use bittorrent to post the releases ... very useful when downloading the large ISO images. That's all my post, cheers to all.
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