From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 2 19:16:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C6F8106566B for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 19:16:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp224.math.arizona.edu (smtp224.math.arizona.edu [128.196.224.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4F88FC20 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 19:16:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JVtfV-0007XX-Pl for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:16:18 -0700 Received: from 71-220-154-220.tcsn.qwest.net ([71.220.154.220] helo=.domain.actdsltmp) by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JVtf7-0007XD-Bu; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:15:53 -0700 Message-ID: <47CAFCE6.2080603@math.arizona.edu> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:15:50 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070916) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eculp References: <20080301194514.93686v93heexups0@intranet.encontacto.net> <20080302062136.274050kadocymyw4@intranet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <20080302062136.274050kadocymyw4@intranet.encontacto.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACL-Warn: The HELO/EHLO greeting .domain.actdsltmp is invalid X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:16:19 -0000 eculp wrote: > Quoting Mehul Ved : > >> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:15 AM, eculp wrote: >>> My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since before >>> FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the most >>> versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead simple >>> with most all drivers. I suspect that I am asking the impossible but >>> you never know. >> >> Maybe PC-BSD or Sabayon Linux. Sabayon is based on gentoo and contains >> lots of proprietory drivers built in. So, if you have no problem with >> that maybe >> you could look at Sabayon Linux too. > > I've never heard of Sabayon but will definitely give it a shot on my > laptop first and take a good look at the licensing. > > I really like the idea of PC-BSD but the Flash thing, holds me back a > bit. > They have a hack for Flush. If can use PBI to install Wine+Windows Firefox + Windows Flash so their flash just works like on Windows. They also have PBI for JDK Java. As I mentioned earlier I do not trust PBI very much but will take PC-BSD with PBI any day over the Windows. You should look again at Ubuntu which is Debian based if you want Linux. Mint is also another distro based on Ubuntu with more proprietary drivers. PC-Linux another distro to be aware. Sebayon based on Gentoo is excellent Linux distro easy to work and with lots of proprietary drivers. Personally if I had to chose Linux I would stick with Debian based distro because of the package management and the largest number of packages available. Cheers, Predrag > ed > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"