From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 05:21:04 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 231CE16A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 05:21:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C754E43D62 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 05:21:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from kg-work.kg4.no (150.80-202-72.nextgentel.com [80.202.72.150]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with SMTP id A838378796 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:21:00 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:10:37 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040108141037.1b11cb56.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <3FFCBABF.5080700@ocnetworking.com> References: <3FFCBABF.5080700@ocnetworking.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq;m"_0v;~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 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 13:21:04 -0000 On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:04:47 -0800 Dylan Reinhold wrote: > 1: The best way to install X, from ports or pkg I prefer to install from ports, because then I can upgrade my ports with cvsup and portupgrade. The downside is that it takes some time, and this is more noticeable if you run on a slow system. > 2: Views on desktop mangers. I prefer XFce, because it is quite small and fast, and lightweight so it works on machines with limited memory. And still it looks more like a "normal" graphical desktop than many of the more radical choices (like only running one of the small footprint window managers). My best advice to you is to try a few, and find out for yourself which one you feel works best for you after a time. > 3. Any one run a Dell CPi, with any do and don'ts I don't, so I can't help you there. Remember; these are _my_ views, somebody else will probably have other views. -- Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway