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My experience has been: NetBSD, OtherBSD, FreeBSD, OPenBSD in that order.
It depends on what you are doing.
#d support then FreeBSD and it's derivatives. Same for Wireless.
A laptop connected by ethernet and you are willing to add a few drivers: either open or net.
My experience has been: NetBSD, OtherBSD, FreeBSD, OPenBSD in that order.
It depends on what you are doing.
#d support then FreeBSD and it's derivatives. Same for Wireless.
A laptop connected by ethernet and you are willing to add a few drivers: either open or net.
And it's quite possible that a given notebook the OP might own would have hardware that none of the BSD's support.
My experience is that OpenBSD "just works", and if by chance it doesn't, then the driver hasn't been written for it yet.
PC-BSD may be better though since it gives you a graphical installation and setups your system up with a KDE environment right out of the box.
Also another one you might try could be opensolaris. I am currently testing it out for the first time ever. Found everything on my laptop even the wireless.
In my opinion NetBSD, OpenBSD are great for building server based systems.
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