Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 09:53:45 +0100 From: Paul Branston <apbran@rannoch.demon.co.uk> To: ftrk <ftrk@uaf.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which *BSD to choose? Message-ID: <20010705095345.A30523@rannoch.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3B41F171@webmail.uaf.edu>; from ftrk@uaf.edu on Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:28:24PM -0800 References: <3B41F171@webmail.uaf.edu>
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On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:28:24PM -0800, ftrk wrote: > Dear all, > I haven't used *BSD at all, but been using UNIX(Solaris) and LINUX for awhile. > However I have recently been reading lot about the *BSD's and even downloaded > Kevin Lai's paper from USENIX about the comparison of SOLARIS, LINUX and > FreeBSD. I would like to play with it on my laptop which is kinda old, but I > was wondering about drivers for display chipsets etc: > Intel PIII Processor > ATi Rage 128 display chipset(14" SXGA display) I run OpenBSD on this laptop, (Dell Inspiron). If your ATI Rage is the same as mine its not supported in XFree 3.3 but it is in XFree 4, OpenBSD 2.9 supports this out of the box, previously I had to install XFree 4 myself. I believe that FreeBSD 4.3 installs XFree 3 something and you'll have to upgrade XFree for your graphics. So for X purposes OpenBSD 2.9 might be easier. > Xircom 10/100 cardbus PCMCIA card you'll get a more accurate answer from the freebsd-mobile list but I think that the cardbus support is being worked on but not in the default install as yet. I have a 3Com 10/100 card which works fine (3Com 3c575C-TX Ethernet) and a Psion Gold modem card. > Internal Lucent Gold v50 modem( I am sure this wouldn't be supported:( ) > > I would definitely like to use and support FreeBSD. However I am unable to > make up my mind as to which one will suit me and an assessment of the three > flavours. Would you have any pointers as to where I can find some info? I am > currently running a dualboot, with winme(only because the internal modem is > not supported:(and I can't afford a external modem card right now ) and > linux(redhat 7 which I don't wanna use anymore since I have found things which > I don't like in it anymore). I am also interested in knowing the packages, > like compilers(like gcc, g77, perl) etc. Also does this come with any crypto > software? Pardon my ignorance, I tried to look around, but couldn't find info There are more tools and compilers available for any of these platforms than you could shake a stick at. FreeBSD has far more ports and has support for ISDN integrated whereas OpenBSD has no ISDN support integrated and a reduced number of ports. As for the ethos of the developers; OpenBSD aims to be the most secure, support only single processors. FreeBSD aims to be solid and stable and supports multi processors. NetBSD (not tried this myself) aims to run on more hardware flavours. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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