From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jul 6 11:30:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 915FC37B403 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 11:30:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA59CF; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 11:36:37 -0700 Message-ID: <3B4603B1.5F45F9DE@acuson.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 11:30:09 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > What is the last release kernel version of FreeBSD? Is possible to compile > it? Is the source code available? The latest release is 4.3. It includes much more then a kernel. The whole OS from kernel to userland is integrated into a single source tree, and all of it is now at release 4.3 And the full source for everything is available and a license so free it makes the Linux look miserly. FreeBSD comes with very good documentation. The FreeBSD handbook, which is also online, has a chapter on rebuilding the kernel and another on rebuilding everything else. > How about hardware support? Are there drivers for PCMCIA cards and > winmodems? > I'm interested in install it on a notebook. Like Linux, there won't be any winmodem support. Fire off a nasty letter to your winmodem manufacturer, and go grab a real modem (you know, one that actually meets the dictionary definition). PCMCIA works fine. But like Linux, laptops can be tricky beasts. You might have to do a bit of searching to get some of the more esoteric part-of-the-day components to work. In my experience, FreeBSD has better support for network related hardware, but not as much for soundcards. There is a site for FreeBSD laptops. I don't know where it is though. Anybody out there know? > Are there a kernel feature like ipchains/iptable? Yes. > PS: if is it the wrong place to post this kind of questions, sorry. Who > can answer them? Technical questions don't belong on this list, but your questions are fine. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message