Inspiron 7500 + Linksys + FreeBSD 4 or 5?

[Timothy Luoma]

On 6/11/04 3:12 AM, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Friday, 11 June 2004 at  2:53:28 -0400, Timothy Luoma wrote:
>> 
>> I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 which is no longer my primary machine, therefore
>> I want to use it to learn FreeBSD.
>> 
>> I will be connecting to the internet via a Linksys Wireless Network PC Card
>> WPC11 v3
>> 
>> and was wondering whether folks would suggest FBSD4 or FBSD5 for this.  It
>> will not be a production-level machine, however I'm new enough that if 5 is
>> too "raw" then I'd be content with 4.
> 
> I have both on my 7500.

*LOL*

Hrm.... I think if we checked, we'd find that you were a bit more skilled &
familiar with FreeBSD than me :-)

Do you have the WIFI card working or know if it is supported under
either/both versions.

> It's really up to you; or install both :-)

I guess the remaining questions are:

1) Is there anything I can do w/ FBSD5 that I couldn't do with FBSD4 that
I'd want to do?

2) Is the install process for one any easier than for the other?

I'd tend to lean towards trying FBSD5 just because I'd assume it'd be less
likely that I'd find something in FBSD4 that I wanted (feature-wise) that
wasn't in FBSD5 than vice-versa.

Besides, what's a test machine for if not to install the bleeding edge of a
new OS that I'm not all that familiar with ;-?

TjL


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