From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jul 6 11:27:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp010.mail.yahoo.com (smtp010.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 836CA37B401 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 11:27:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdq@yahoo.com) Received: from h2.impactidealsolutions.com (HELO support10) (216.98.200.91) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Jul 2001 18:27:56 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 12:33:09 -0600 X-Priority: 3 From: Peter X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: YAPEDU@SIDERAR.COM, newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re:Questions Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.57 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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