On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Paul graf <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > > I spent last Saturday evening reading the installation manual pages for > FreeBSD. It would be interesting to use on a Pentium 3 pc that I have here I > thought. I know alot of the Linux/Unix is much over my head. Quick tip... if Linux is over your head you may really struggle with FreeBSD. It's a very stable, powerful OS but not so friendly to newbies. Would I be able > to use the old Dell Optiplex as a good netsurfer email machine? Probably. I haven't checked the requirements for the latest FreeBSD builds but that team prides themselves in a lightweight OS. I'm guessing it will run on a PIII just fine. Would a > Ralink 2561 wireless card be your choices since the computer does not have > any wireless card as of now. A quick Google search turns up a few hints that the driver was built into FreeBSD in the 7.0-ish builds of FreeBSD. My guess is that it will work just fine, but as with anything feel free to experiment. What could anyone really suggest as far as > wireless card in PCI form be for FreeBSD? Again I am sorry for not properly > responding to the TLUG digest before. Check the HCL for FreeBSD. I use Atheros based cards in Linux because the Atheros driver is finally open and works very well. Not sure what the state of Atheros is for FreeBSD. Brian