From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 23 02:08:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD6616A41F for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:08:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1822843D45 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:08:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp212-204.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.212.204]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAN28Bi9093408 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:38:12 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:38:05 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <4383C20E.20509@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <4383C20E.20509@shaw.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1911160.Z6cXxilX05"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511231238.06590.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Graham North Subject: Re: Laptop choices X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:08:19 -0000 --nextPart1911160.Z6cXxilX05 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:42, Graham North wrote: > Am currently trying to choose between a couple of laptops, the luck > winner of which will have Freebsd loaded alongside WinXP. > > Dell Latitude d600 with Radeon 9000? video, intel pro wireless > or > IBM R51 - Intel Extreme2, intel pro wireless. > The main differences will likely be the video and maybe bios, acpi...? > Can someone suggest to me whether these are both safe choices? I'd say the Dell's video is more likely to work (even 3d). > Am I better off installing 5.4 or 6.0? I'd try 6.0 myself. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1911160.Z6cXxilX05 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDg88G5ZPcIHs/zowRAvQzAKClpUprSoOSlrZ+M1SlsOhPqxZ9rwCcCJno IKRuk0BUCd4JbYOIt6qdfRU= =mP9e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1911160.Z6cXxilX05--