From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 19 6:40:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3650315070 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 06:40:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11opD4-000Ne0-00; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:40:22 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA23046; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:40:21 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:40:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: FreeBSD mailing list Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: notebooks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I run 3.3 STABLE on a Toshiba Satellite 4010CDT. I hear Toshiba is alterna-OS friendly, and i would have to agree. Hardware config was easy, with just a little extra work needed for the PCMCIA card. Display is beautiful on Xwindows. Why would you run a server on a laptop though? Wouldn't a desktop box be more reliable under heavy loads? On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, FreeBSD mailing list wrote: > >I am buying a notebook on which I Want to install FreeBSD as permanent >server at my job site. >I wanted to ask if someone can suggest me some particular model on which >FreeBSD runs without any troubles. >In particular if someone can suggest me a good PCMCIA fast ethernet card. >Then I Wanted to ask if I might have some problem using X11 on the >notebook given the particular type of display. > >thanks > >Rick > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -jm --------- He who laughs last... obviously didn't get the joke. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message