From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 09:03:15 2004 Return-Path: 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 DB53D16A4CF for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:03:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 003F643D39 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:03:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: (qmail 25851 invoked by uid 505); 21 Jan 2004 17:03:13 -0000 Received: from root@pukruppa.de by dsl-mail by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (spamassassin: 2.43. Clear:SA:0(0.0/5.0):. Processed in 0.26348 secs); 21 Jan 2004 17:03:13 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO reverse-213-146-114-24.dialin.kamp-dsl.de) (213.146.114.24) by dsl-mail.kamp.net with SMTP; 21 Jan 2004 17:03:12 -0000 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:07:14 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa X-X-Sender: root@pukruppa.net To: Jonathon McKitrick In-Reply-To: <20040121124856.GA44210@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: <20040121180046.D825@pukruppa.net> References: <20040120223640.GB39542@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20040121124856.GA44210@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:03:16 -0000 On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:32:42AM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > : Can you run a basic X-Windows system on it? > > Definitely. Then I think you should use your laptop as what it is meant to be: a mobile workstation. Even if you can't install the big things like gnome, kde, mozilla and openoffice, there are hundreds of small ported apps, with which work can be done (in the garden, kitchen, on the train or whereever you like). Regards, Uli. > > > jm > -- > My other computer is your Windows box. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+