Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 14:55:49 -0400 From: Valentine Kouznetsov <vk@mail.lepp.cornell.edu> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: which version to pick up Message-ID: <3F2FFDB5.9090602@mail.lepp.cornell.edu>
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Hi, I would say that I know nothing about FreeBSD and something about UNIX and even more about Linux. I was grown up with Linux. And I don't want any response like: "ah, you're Linux guy, we'll not talk to you since BSD is BETTER then Linux". I don't want this discussion. I want to try FreeBSD and here my questions: 1) how good/bad support for laptops (in particular pci, pcmcia, usb, acpi) 2) where to check that my hardware is supported 3) which version of FreeBSD to choose for desktop/server/laptop 4) is there any journaling filesystem available on FreeBSD (and I want it be default while installing FreeBSD) 5) how different gcc/ld on BSD from Linux (mostly loader) 6) what the difference between Free/Open/Net and why (give me the real reasons) should I choose FreeBSD rather then Open/Net clones. And don't get me wrong, I'm reading FAQs and Handbook, I just wanna hear real voice with real opinion. I'll appreciate if you cc me as well since I'm not in a list, hmm yet :) With all respect to FreeBSD, Valentine.
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