From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 1 06:29:42 2012 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 17E4B106566B for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 06:29:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller23@insightbb.com) Received: from mail.insightbb.com (smtp3.insight.synacor.com [208.47.185.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A948FC15 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 06:29:41 +0000 (UTC) X_CMAE_Category: 0,0 Undefined,Undefined X-CNFS-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=F8TyQ5zbFFwaxosnJ0ZlldOAN2tyC1Cwx1RAJLgn+0k= c=1 sm=0 a=jLN7EqiLvroA:10 a=qFHZJ8gvAAAA:8 a=sB6kilK7FulZWa7UhSgA:9 a=W-rbWt41EkMA:10 a=Q/oqmR4JO1zR3vNQamCQeQ==:117 X-CM-Score: 0 X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine Authentication-Results: smtp02.insight.synacor.com smtp.mail=mueller23@insightbb.com; spf=softfail; sender-id=softfail Authentication-Results: smtp02.insight.synacor.com header.from=mueller23@insightbb.com; sender-id=softfail Received-SPF: softfail (smtp02.insight.synacor.com: transitional domain insightbb.com does not designate 74.134.26.53 as permitted sender) Received: from [74.134.26.53] ([74.134.26.53:48056] helo=localhost) by mail.insightbb.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.40 r(29895/29896)) with ESMTP id 9E/12-15580-45168CF4; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:29:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:29:40 -0400 Message-ID: <9E.12.15580.45168CF4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Eitan Adler , phnxcs_rep@lycos.com Subject: (no subject) 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: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 06:29:42 -0000 On 29 May 2012 20:06, wrote: >    Hello, >   I am moving away from MS products due to security a nd stability >   concerns.  Below are the machines I use and would like to know which >   version of FreeBSD will work best with each.  The computer s are used >   at home and away, for e-mail, preparing documents, databases, an d >   spredsheets, as well as, web browsing and some begining programing >   (Perl, C, HTML, and Assembely I think). Eitan Adler responded: > I don't know much about the specifics but for a desktop computer I > would go with either FreeBSD 9 or PC-BSD (perhaps with the intel kms > patch) I'd say go with FreeBSD 9.0, either 9.0-release or 9.0-stable snapshot. I ddon't see any advantage in FreeBSD 8.x or earlier. One thing I didn't like about FreeBSD < 9 was distribution sets broken into floppy-sized chunks (base.aa, base.ab ...) which is no longer the case with 9.0. For C programming, you have the choice between gcc and Clang. I like Gnumeric spreadsheet. Tom