From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 18:04:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 028D116A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 18:04:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from fed1mtao03.cox.net (fed1mtao03.cox.net [68.6.19.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150AB43D1D for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 18:04:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dylan@ocnetworking.com) Received: from ocnetworking.com ([68.4.231.87]) by fed1mtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040108020450.DHII28419.fed1mtao03.cox.net@ocnetworking.com> for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:04:50 -0500 Message-ID: <3FFCBABF.5080700@ocnetworking.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:04:47 -0800 From: Dylan Reinhold Organization: InterNetworking User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: First Time Laptop Install X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 02:04:53 -0000 Hello All, I've just finished installing the 5.2RC base on my Dell CPi, I have been using FreeBSD for a few years now only as a server never as a desktop. So I have a few preference questions. This is also my jump from 4.x to 5.x. Any tips would be great... 1: The best way to install X, from ports or pkg 2: Views on desktop mangers. 3. Any one run a Dell CPi, with any do and don'ts Thanks, Dylan