From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 9 7:24:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5189F37B422 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 07:24:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA61284; Wed, 9 May 2001 16:22:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations in France / Europe? References: <20010509133826.I82438@lpt.ens.fr> <20010509142909.L82438@lpt.ens.fr> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 09 May 2001 16:22:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20010509142909.L82438@lpt.ens.fr> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan writes: > Yes, indeed. I checked Dell's web page, the Inspiron 2500 looks > ok to me but I have to choose not only Windows, but also either MS > works or MS office arrgh.... (anyway I'm not sure FreeBSD works on > it but it does apparently work on other Inspirons) I'd say there's a 90% probability you'll get all the essential components working (that is, everything except the audio DSP and the built-in modem if there is one). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message