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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!tor.istar!east.istar!news.cgocable.net!n2tor.istar!gtnews.golden.org!usenet 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 Organization: Golden Triangle Online Lines: 28 Message-ID: <32571A34.3F28@golden.net> References: <3256E420.2217@airmail.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: swo-89.golden.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) 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