From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 10:47:46 2003 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 C500037B401 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 10:47:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lyta.telenor.se (lyta.telenor.se [213.150.135.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D33E43F3F for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 10:47:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@minmail.net) Received: from pcmob.mwr.se (62.5.66.76 [62.5.66.76]) by lyta.telenor.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.1) with ESMTP id 528740.106773.1053.0s3396379lyta ; Fri, 16 May 2003 19:39:33 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands Organization: qbranch To: "Jesse D. Guardiani" Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 19:39:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305161939.26964.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 on new 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: Fri, 16 May 2003 17:47:47 -0000 On Friday 16 May 2003 8:43 am, Jim Mock wrote: > On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 02:36 PM, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > > Howdy list! > > > > I'm going to be installing 5.0 on my new (to me) IBM A30p thinkpad in > > a few days (perhaps even over the weekend). I've heard that there have > > been major improvements checked into CVS since 5.0-RELEASE, so what > > would the list recommend I do? Dont know about the list but my experience on my laptop... gateway solo, was unremittingly sucky....... much slower in general, my xircom cardbus caused panics, I have two 3com cards, one wouldn't work at all, the other was depressingly slow and chewed up 100% cpu whenever I used it. I just don't think 5 is ready for laptop use, the server side and offers compelling reasons to upgrade but until I get my smp raid equiped laptop I am going to need some serious persuading before I say goodbye to 4.8. (and for the yeah sayers, I tried numerous configs and begged for help on -current without getting anywhere). I'm waiting for 5.3........ ;-)