From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 25 8:28:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C1B137B401 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:28:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fed1mtao02.cox.net (fed1mtao02.cox.net [68.6.19.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B878943E3B for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:28:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeffreyjensen1@cox.net) Received: from Jeff ([68.8.123.122]) by fed1mtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20020825152844.MQWH1374.fed1mtao02.cox.net@Jeff> for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 11:28:44 -0400 From: "Jeff Jensen" To: Subject: FW: Why Should I switch to FreeBSD? Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:28:44 -0700 Message-ID: <000001c24c4c$196637b0$fd00a8c0@Jeff> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [mailto:grog@FreeBSD.org] Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 6:29 PM To: Jeff Jensen Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.org; kuriyama@FreeBSD.org; imp@FreeBSD.org; markm@FreeBSD.org; wes@FreeBSD.org; murray@FreeBSD.org; rwatson@FreeBSD.org; peter@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why Should I switch to FreeBSD? On Wednesday, 21 August 2002 at 21:49:31 -0700, Jeff Jensen wrote: > Hello. My name is Jeffrey Jensen. I live in San Diego, California and > am currently 15 years of age. I am extremely interested in computers, > specifically UNIX and OpenGL Programming (specifically). I was born and > raised in windows 3.1 and 95 however due to my extreme disappointment > with the latest windows, Windows XP I decided to dual boot windows xp > (for GL programming) and linux (mandrake 9.0 beta 2). My question is, > is there any real reason for me to switch from linux to BSD? Is there > much of a difference? I have tried installing it before to no avail > however I am much more confident in my UNIX skills now after using linux > a lot more lately. > > I am interested in contributing to FreeBSD as well. However, I am not > sure about the availability of 3d acceleration in freebsd. I know that > is more of an xFree86 thing (which has experimental support) but is > getting GL to work in FreeBSD the same as getting it to work in linux > (which I could not do)? Does FreeBSD offer GL libraries installed right > out of the box? > > Should I wait for FreeBSD 5.0 before I switch? Will there be much of a > difference with 5.0? > > Thank you so much and please respond I would really appreciate it. You > guys rock. Thanks for the message, Jeff. You appear to have chosen us because we're all the members of the FreeBSD Core team, which is an administrative body. You should address your questions to FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org. See http://www.FreeBSD.org/ for more information, including how to subscribe to the questions list. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message