From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 16 15:48:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F12B16A40F for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:48:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D4B243D45 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:48:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so427707uge for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:48:42 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=GZloTUDduyeQroIFC+ZQ9E/YV4zNjyds8EsIbJGgDMkdOeMhhfxNtzMYD4IAP7h+nI8i+V5D5jFEdIaHYXJsQC2tnTn9Zr5uU01OWRB0w34K/tWoWHkpdKltNRiyRWFcKS+LmEmTbuN48i+GLB2rEjxOqJYIernu/IFs01+178U= Received: by 10.67.21.11 with SMTP id y11mr451777ugi.1163692121350; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:48:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.106.17 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:48:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <226ae0c60611160748v4c3d4290ld1a7ca568dcee4f4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:48:40 -0500 From: "David Robillard" To: g MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: Best laptop for Freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:48:44 -0000 > Hi Folks, > > Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month > or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For > those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan > would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd, and > most likely fedora. I had no problems getting my wireless to > work on the old one using the ndis stuff and freebsd beat the other > two hands down for performance. > > Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as > this is my day in day out operating system). > > Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. > > > thanks > > Geoff Hi Geoff, It's not FreeBSD, but may I suggest an Apple PowerBook running MacOS X ? Or the new MacBook line? I use a PowerBook G4 under MacOS X 10.4.8 as an administration system everyday to manage around 50+ FreeBSD servers. I connect to my server's serial consoles via a USB-to-Serial adapter from Keyspan with ZTerm. You also have access to a ports-like environement on MacOS X via http://www.macports.org/ and http://www.darwinports.com/. It works great. My two cents. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122