Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:29:40 -0400 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, phnxcs_rep@lycos.com Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <9E.12.15580.45168CF4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com>
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On 29 May 2012 20:06, <phnxcs_rep@lycos.com> 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
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