What *BSD ports are the best?

[bobarian]

I am looking for a good alternative OS to install on my box. Basically, something that works the way it's supposed to. I installed Linux but it didn't support my ethernet card and the drivers i got for it won't compile. And lots of other things that are simply annoying. So I was looking into all the BSD ports, and am on the verge of installing one. However, I am afraid that if I do, I will not be able to keep my dual boot with windoze (a necessary evil). I need help. It would be great if I could just install it onto the partition I now have Linux on and boot it with a floppy. Thanks for any help.

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Bobarian
Conformity is boring.

[freebsd]

Go for FreeBSD as it's more user-friendly than the others, plus, it has alot more (even more than Linux RPMs) programs to experience with.
If you plan to run any BSD, just use your entire hard drive for it and drop your Windows. You wanna keep it running and as uptime as possible, so don't boot into this, then boot into the others. Anyway, I suggest you to build another box, don't dual boot, it's a bad practice, real bad!

[larryliberty]

Might I suggest another network card? I have a 3com 3c905, which works fine! You haven't mentioned which network card you have, but if it doesn't work with Linux, it may not work with FreeBSD either. On the other hand, from what I know of FreeBSD, it rules! The only reason I don't have it myself is because I don't want to get rid of Slackware (which also rules).

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