Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 26, 2006 02:56 AM
Actually I tried FreeBSD on my thinkpad the other week and I was very impressed at how much hardware detection it did. The only piece of hardware that gave me any issues was the PCCard Bus, and I was able to resolve that with a little googling.
However, the binary packages are another story. Most of them are dated (firefox 1.07, vim 4.3) so I've actually been trying to switch over to DragonFlyBSD where the hardware support is a bit worse, but the binary packages are more up-to date.
I've been a long time linux user, but I've finally had the time and the inclination to try the BSDs and I'm quite satisfied with them.
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Re:Without starting anything,...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 26, 2006 02:56 AMHowever, the binary packages are another story. Most of them are dated (firefox 1.07, vim 4.3) so I've actually been trying to switch over to DragonFlyBSD where the hardware support is a bit worse, but the binary packages are more up-to date.
I've been a long time linux user, but I've finally had the time and the inclination to try the BSDs and I'm quite satisfied with them.
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