Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 01:44:17 +0200 From: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which OS for notebook Message-ID: <AANLkTik%2BqDPC%2BqVMgX5%2BLyLXuH=w-pV1d=oDZGE7ED-M@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin644c3dZ0NNbJzeqXvuyLwTF67Ed=zJSoM9w6g@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTin644c3dZ0NNbJzeqXvuyLwTF67Ed=zJSoM9w6g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Leandro F Silva <fsilvaleandro@gmail.com> w= rote: > Hi guys, > > Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? > Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. > > Thank you ! Linux Mandriva 2010 on my notebook (Dell 1318) and Mandriva 2010.1 on my netbook (Compaq mini CQ10-120LA) ... I need ACPI to work as expected and no BSD can give me that, and the same goes for wireless cards support .. forget bout bluetotth ... besides, dumping a Linux .iso image in a USB stick to give it a go on my notebook/netbook to try it out before installing was incredibly more easy than doing so with BSD images as most major Linux distributions provide Win/Linux GUI tools to do so (The Mandriva tool will ask you to select an .iso image and a USB ... point, click, you are done ... Fedoras tool will even allow you to create a a separate partition on the same USB device to store your files should you choose not to install the OS). Linux (as much as I don=B4t like it) is years ahead of BSD=B4s in that rega= rds ... And, oh yeah .. native UTF-8 tty=B4s and KVM make a huge difference. FreeBSD has been relegated to my desktop (which I have come to use only ocassionally, and servers). Best Regards Gonzalo Nemmi
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