From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 20 16:14:51 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 BD5B916A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:14:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.evilcoder.org (cust.94.120.adsl.cistron.nl [195.64.94.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24EF243D2D for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:14:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Message-ID: <405CDE69.6090208@elvandar.org> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 01:14:33 +0100 From: Remko Lodder X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ecrist@adtechintegrated.com References: <200403201743.14451.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> In-Reply-To: <200403201743.14451.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: for evilcoder.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best *nix OS for a 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: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 00:14:51 -0000 Eric F Crist wrote: > Hello list, > > I've been using freebsd 4.x on a laptop for 6 months or so now, and I'm not > entirely happy with it. Mostly, it lacks multimedia support and power > management. I don't want to start some flame war here, but here goes. > > Could some of you please send me an email telling me what OS you utilize on > your laptop, and why? I'm not looking for anyone bashing any other OS, just > why you use what you do. > > TIA Hi Eric, First of all, when someone flamewars over this, it's very shamefull... The one who does that should know better, and even OS bashing is the same form, know better. I run FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my laptop and that works rather ok. My soundcard words, and the Powermanagement i don't use so cannot tell anything about that. Why do i use it? I like to run bleeding edge stuff, and on my laptop i cannot do any harm at all. Also i am interested in it :-). I run on my laptop some applications to do some administration (OpenOffice) and i use it to connect to my servers in the home lan. I've also used the laptop in a SANS track where we needed laptops, from every OS in the room i thought (and still think) that my FreeBSD laptop was most secure and reliable. Also i like to use it as a mobile cd player and dvd player, and that works alright with xmms and Xine. Hope this gives some information to you :-) Cheers! -- -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene