From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Mar 15 18: 0:57 2003 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 4CC2737B401 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:00:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B07D043F75 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:00:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from adsl-67-120-107-6.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO pacbell.net) (fscked@pacbell.net@67.120.107.6 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Mar 2003 02:00:55 -0000 Message-ID: <3E73DAB1.1B810D83@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:00:17 -0800 From: richard childers / kg6hac X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paul beard Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-friendly laptops (was: laptop compatibility list) References: <3E72A716.4070607@mac.com> <3E734CFC.5BBBA6F1@pacbell.net> <3E73AF21.6090201@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This does sound like an area that the FreeBSD consortium (such as it is) would benefit from adding to its resources. -- richard paul beard wrote: > richard childers / kg6hac wrote: > > There's already an XFree86 config library out there somewhere, FYI ... > > I wasn't clear, I think. What I was after was not yet another > bunch of config files on someone's personal site, but something > that lived and was maintained at freeBSD.org. One of the big > reasons I like FreeBSD to some of the other free unix-like > offerings is that it's "owned" in the sense of having a central > repository for source code, documentation, and mailing lists like > this. Typing > > So it makes sense to me for something like this to live at > freeBSD.org and just direct people to www.freeBSD.org/mobile or > /laptop and let that be a comprehensive repository of useful > information. > > -- > Paul Beard > > whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 > > Think big. Pollute the Mississippi. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message