Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 12:33:09 -0600 From: Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com> To: YAPEDU@SIDERAR.COM, newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re:Questions Message-ID: <SAK.2001.07.06.tesrdofp@support10>
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On 07/06/2001 12:17:57 PM, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI is quoted as saying: . . . .|Hi all. . . . .| . . . .|This is my first message to the list. . . . .|I'm currently running debian GNU/Linux on a firewall/masquerading/mail . . . .|server at work and on my home PCs, but I'd readed very good comments . . . .|about FreeBSD on some lists I'm subscribed to, so I decide to post some . . . .|questions about features I'm interested in here. . . . .| . . . .|What is the last release kernel version of FreeBSD? Is possible to compile . . . .|it? Is the source code available? Last release was 4.3, yes it's possible to update it to a newer "release" and compile it. The source code is more "available" for FreeBSD than for Debian. . . . .| . . . .|How about hardware support? Are there drivers for PCMCIA cards and . . . .|winmodems? No winmodems [why would you use them anyways?] Try www.freebsd.org/handbook or more specifically: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-hw.html . . . .|I'm interested in install it on a notebook. . . . .| . . . .|Are there a kernel feature like ipchains/iptable? IPFW, and IPF FreeBSD rules, and for the most part everything that debian has freebsd has, everything that debian does FreeBSD does better. www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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