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#! rnews 1920 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Info Needed Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 09:46:22 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 45 Message-ID: <32577FEE.3114@www.play-hookey.com> References: <3256E420.2217@airmail.net> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) To: davidh2@airmail.net 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? Yep. > 2. Any problems compiling/loading GNU apps? I haven't; can't speak for everyone. > 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 modem Depending what version of FreeBSD you install, that PnP modem may be troublesome. Can you lock it to a fixed COM port? Also, I use Stealth 64 DRAM VLB cards. With 1 MB RAM they uniformly caused problems with both Windoze and Xwindow at over 256 colors. Upgrading to 2MB solved the problem both ways. > 4. Is there a version of Netscape for BDS like there is for Linux? > If not, what options are there for browsers? Sure is. Use the BSDI version. > > Anything else I forgot? If so, I'm sure you'll think of it at some point. ;-) > > Thanks for the feedback. Pls email or post here. > [CC both] -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |