Some years ago I used FreeBSD 5.4 on a home-built machine, but after a couple of hardware changes and frustration therewith switched to Ubuntu. Later I purchased a Dell Inspiron 530n with Ubuntu 7.10. I am thinking about switching back to FreeBSD and would like to use 5.4 or 5.5 but am unsure of whether it will work well with Dell Hardware. If I do use a newer release I will probably go with the latest Legacy, but would really like to use 5.x if at all possible, unless I can get some of the older software by back-port (not sure if that is the right term). I would say that I am - or at least was - an intermediate BSD user, but have been away from it for a few years now. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thom
Thom