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From: eugene <eugene@golden.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Info Needed
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 22:32:20 -0400
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David Henderson wrote:
> 
> Linux is starting to wear a little thin on my nerves, and I've thought
> about replacing it with FreeBSD.  But, some questions first:
> 
> 1.  Linux comes with gcc, awk, curses, etc.  Does FreeBSD?Yes.
> 2.  Any problems compiling/loading GNU apps?No.
> 3.  I have the following hardware.  Any problems?
>        486/66 DX, 20 MB RAM, about 250 MB HDD available for BSD.
>        Diamond Stealth 64 (S3) video card, 1 MB RAM on card
>        PnP 28.8Kbps modemI have S3 Trio 64 and it works great. Am not sure about Diamond Stealth 64 
though.
> 4.  Is there a version of Netscape for BDS like there is for Linux?
>     If not, what options are there for browsers?The BSD/OS version works good on FreeBSD including the java support. I was also 
able to compile with no problem kaffe-0.5p3 - so I got almost complete Java 
development system.

I was very happy with v.2.1 that I just unstalled in order to repartition my 
Hard Drive. ( Just deleted OS/2 Warp v3.0 - great system with no ISVs or even 
IBM commited to it though. ) A few days ago I just ordered FreeBSD v2.1.5 system 
but I am still considering to give Linux with the new v2.0 kernel a try. The 
reason - the Java SDK is ported to Linux and there is fast compiler called 
guavac that I don't think I will be able to get running under FreeBSD since in 
requires the absolutely latest version of GCC.

Hope this helps.

Eugene