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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
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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?

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

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