From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Feb 18 7:27:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from scotty.masternet.it (scotty.masternet.it [194.184.65.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C14115FD for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 07:21:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Received: from suzy (modem20.masternet.it [194.184.65.30]) by scotty.masternet.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA26346; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:21:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Message-Id: <4.1.19990218162613.0098be10@194.184.65.4> X-Sender: gmarco@scotty.masternet.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:29:27 +0100 To: "Eric I. Arnoth" From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: new laptop, which system? Cc: mobile@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09.28 18/02/99 -0500, you wrote: >My many thanks to all of you who sent me information on what laptops would >be FreeBSD friendly. I have read the suggestions, searched the web for >more details, and performed extensive price comparisons. Now that I have >selected the new laptop I will buy, I find myself wondering which version >of FreeBSD should I install. Which would be wiser to install on a fresh >system, 3.1 (3.0?) stable, or the PAO 2.2.8? I notice that there is no >PAO install disk for 3.x, and I certainly want to install the right >version since I have a clean slate to start from. Thanks again for all >the emails everyone sent. It is very gratifying to have recieved such >kindly assistance in my moment of crisis. If you are brave enough I'd suggest go for 4.0-current, but if you use for a production env. I strongly suggest 3.1-stable. I have no problem at all at running FreeBSD 4.0-current on my Libretto 50ct and Ast, but I am using them for fun ... if a day there is a problem is not a critical iussue. 2.2.x-stable branch is out of discussion... Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.giovannelli.it/~gmarco http://www2.masternet.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message