FBSD or PCBSD?

[John Nielsen]

Quoting Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com>:

> Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> ........
>>
>> Which is a better solution for a home user?
>>
>> Thank you very much for your practical recommendations!
> .......
>
> I have had great success using PCBSD on various acers, I eventually 
> got fed up with it being not quite identical to FreeBSD and I now 
> have FreeBSD 6.2 on my current acer laptop (a 1680).
> -- 

I was unable to even boot my Wife's Acer (an Aspire 5520) with FreeBSD 
6.3-pre or 7.0-pre. I'm also pretty sure the Acer wireless is NOT 
supported by any native drivers; I haven't seen any success or failure 
stories from anyone trying NDIS. I expect the same will be true with 
PC-BSD, since AFAIK their kernel is pretty much stock FreeBSD (main 
differences are in the installer and package management).

JN