From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 4 23:28:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.uaf.edu (aurora.uaf.edu [137.229.18.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E921537B405 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 23:28:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ftrk@uaf.edu) Received: from webmail.uaf.edu (ldap.uaf.edu [137.229.18.31]) by aurora.uaf.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA25993 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 22:28:16 -0800 (AKDT) X-WebMail-UserID: ftrk Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 22:28:24 -0800 From: ftrk To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002732 Subject: which *BSD to choose? Message-ID: <3B41F171@webmail.uaf.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: WebMail (Hydra) SMTP v3.61.08 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear all, I haven't used *BSD at all, but been using UNIX(Solaris) and LINUX for awhile. However I have recently been reading lot about the *BSD's and even downloaded Kevin Lai's paper from USENIX about the comparison of SOLARIS, LINUX and FreeBSD. I would like to play with it on my laptop which is kinda old, but I was wondering about drivers for display chipsets etc: Intel PIII Processor ATi Rage 128 display chipset(14" SXGA display) Xircom 10/100 cardbus PCMCIA card Internal Lucent Gold v50 modem( I am sure this wouldn't be supported:( ) I would definitely like to use and support FreeBSD. However I am unable to make up my mind as to which one will suit me and an assessment of the three flavours. Would you have any pointers as to where I can find some info? I am currently running a dualboot, with winme(only because the internal modem is not supported:(and I can't afford a external modem card right now ) and linux(redhat 7 which I don't wanna use anymore since I have found things which I don't like in it anymore). I am also interested in knowing the packages, like compilers(like gcc, g77, perl) etc. Also does this come with any crypto software? Pardon my ignorance, I tried to look around, but couldn't find info on compilers etc.. Any help/pointers/advice is appreciated, TIA Raj Kombiyil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message