A Big Thank You For The BSD Community

[jbennet]

I had a thinkpad r30 (one of the origianal models) and the new (2.6?) linux kernel seemed to hate it so i gave pc-bsd a go. It was so easy to install and use. PBI's are a work of genius!

Thank you all!

[Dingens]

wired world! i thought linux has the better hw support :!: :?:

[jbennet]

No, every linux with the new series of kernel doesnt work properly.

Old distros like SuSE 9 and FC1 work but suse 10 and all ubuntus dont work

Apparently my model thinkpad has a bios bug and thats why. IBM says it can be fixed by flashing it but you need a full battery to do that for some reason and mine expired som time ago. A new one is over £100 and the whole laptop isnt worth that.

So thats why i changed to BSD.

Graphical install was great. Usually to get any linux to even boot on my thinkpad i need loads of kernel options but this needed none

PBI's are so easy to use and the config tools work well.

I am very pleased. One question though, I am using 1.0, should i upgrade to 1.2 ?

I have a Pentium III M and i dont know whether this works with 1.2 (it says it needs a 686 or something?)

[TerryP]

I've generally had more trouble with 2.4 kernels myself.

Hardware support seems to be about the same from where I sit, inless it's a newer peice of hardware.

Before installing I usually boot off a Knoppix Linux Live CD to check hardware support, I find it's about on par with PC-BSD. I think knoppix uses a 2.6 kernel I'm not sure.

I've had very bad experiences with Debian (3.0rc /w 2.4linux), Slackware 10.2 (using test 2.6kernel), Spinix (2.4linux), and NetBSD 3.0 on hardware support. It works on some stuff but not others for me, PC-BSD 1.x seems touchy about booting on some. Yet FreeBSD 6.0 generally works best for hardware support, for the hardware I've been able to try.

[jbennet]

Well its some and not others (2.4s all work fine)

Some 2.6 such as PCLIMUXOS work if i use irqpoll
and Slackware 10 works no problem


The reason I chose PC-BSD was due to these linux difiuclties. I had tried Free BSD 6 but the install was too colplex for me. Dont get me wrong, i dont mind text based installs so long as they are well laid out.

[jbennet]

Oh yeah anyone got an answer for what i said about 1.2 and my CPU?

Thank you guys in advance - your replies have been very swift