From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 27 02:08:59 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC5016A402 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:08:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470F613C459 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:08:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2R28uYZ089334; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:08:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <46087CA9.8000306@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:08:41 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?SXZhbiBaZW56ZXJvdmnEhw==?= References: <640eadd40703261409r55c570aeg8fe56de3753bd8e4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <640eadd40703261409r55c570aeg8fe56de3753bd8e4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD 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: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:08:59 -0000 Ivan Zenzerović wrote: > Hi to all. > > My name is Ivan and I'm new to FreeBSD and Unix, I worked a little in > Linux, but it was a long time ago. I downloaded the 5.5 release and I > plan installing it. I downloaded also all availible docs. I wondered > if it is ok to start with this. 6.2-RELEASE would be a better choice. > And, also, I have an integrated GPU, > it works well on FreeBSD? More than 90% of them do; I don't know about all of them. You might try a FreeBSD live CD (such as "FreeSBIE") and see what kind of performance you get. I think that a new FreeSBIE is out based on FreeBSD 6.2 --- you could check at www.freesbie.org. Good luck! Kevin Kinsey