which version to pick up

From: Valentine Kouznetsov (vk_at_mail.lepp.cornell.edu)
Date: 08/05/03

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    Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 14:55:49 -0400
To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org

    Hi,
    I would say that I know nothing about FreeBSD and something about UNIX
    and even more about Linux.
    I was grown up with Linux. And I don't want any response like: "ah,
    you're Linux guy, we'll not talk to you since
    BSD is BETTER then Linux". I don't want this discussion. I want to try
    FreeBSD and here my questions:
    1) how good/bad support for laptops (in particular pci, pcmcia, usb, acpi)
    2) where to check that my hardware is supported
    3) which version of FreeBSD to choose for desktop/server/laptop
    4) is there any journaling filesystem available on FreeBSD (and I want
    it be default while installing FreeBSD)
    5) how different gcc/ld on BSD from Linux (mostly loader)
    6) what the difference between Free/Open/Net and why (give me the real
    reasons) should I choose FreeBSD
    rather then Open/Net clones.
    And don't get me wrong, I'm reading FAQs and Handbook, I just wanna hear
    real voice with real
    opinion.

    I'll appreciate if you cc me as well since I'm not in a list, hmm yet :)
    With all respect to FreeBSD,
    Valentine.

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