Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:33:08 -0400 From: bdsfbsd@att.net To: "Mikle Krutov" <nekoexmachina@gmail.com>, "Matthias Apitz" <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netbooks & BSD Message-ID: <op.vj5o9ixxhtl4zj@ack5833s2.ad.service.osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20101004195012.GA2023@tiny> References: <20101004233302.GA62267@takino.homeftp.org> <20101004195012.GA2023@tiny>
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On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:50:12 -0400, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> = wrote: > El d=EDa Monday, October 04, 2010 a las 11:33:02PM +0000, Mikle Krutov= = > escribi=F3: > >> Hello, list! >> I'm going to buy a netbook soon, so a question is which one. >> The choice is between >> 1) Samsung N127 >> 2) ASUS Eee PC 900AX >> 3) MSI U120-094 >> Which one is the best for running FreeBSD? >> "The best" mainly is for opensource (e.g. not ndis) & stable wireless= >> drivers. >> So, any good experience and suggestions? >> Thank you for your time! > > I have no idea about which would be the best one, > but I'm using right now (in the moment of typing) an EeePC 900, > details here: http://www.unixarea.de/installEeePC-8CURRENT.txt > and this is just fine; > > HIH > > matthias > +1 on EeePC, mine being the 1000. This uses a not-yet-supported wireless= = card (rt2860), but a driver is available and seems to work fine: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D7010 http://repo.or.cz/w/ralink_drivers.git (Contrary to the troll-bait happening in a similar thread right now..) Matthias took the plunge for KDE, which I do like, but for my Eee I went= = with Xfce. Matthias' work and documentation is more thorough than mine, = so = I'm looking thorough it for ideas. BTW, the specs on the 900AX make me think that Asus is using the model t= o = offload old hardware. But if the price is very low, it still may be wort= h = it. Personally I prefer to have an SSD instead of HDD, and I wouldn't wa= nt = a screen any smaller than the 10". Brian
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