From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 20 7:16:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from web11507.mail.yahoo.com (web11507.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E91637B405 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 07:16:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020320151611.73080.qmail@web11507.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [139.11.41.109] by web11507.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 07:16:11 PST Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 07:16:11 -0800 (PST) From: swjatoslaw gerus Subject: UNIX support,Portege 3480CT vs. IBM x20 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20020320123651.B10995@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gentlemen Autor will buy IBM x20 or Portege 3480CT for NASDAQ mobile trading with satellite(Telecom 2D 8° West downlink) and wireless low byte(mouse click&) HSCSD and GPRS uplink through Nokia 6310 and will: Install Solaris or Open BSD ,which support Irda,Bluetoth,802.11b and mouse . What is better to buy in this case IBM x20 or Portege 3480CT ? What is your point of view ? Point of view anothers persons is belov. 1. --- Stefan Seyfried wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:00:35AM -0800, swjatoslaw > gerus wrote: Autor will buy IBM x20 or Portege 3480CT and > buy the IBM, at least they are officially supported unlike the toshibas and they don't have as much > proprietary-we-cant-give- any-specs-hardware as the toshibas. They are simply less painful. Sorry guys, but this is my experience. Regards, Stefan > Stefan Seyfried, seife+tdme@suse.de, dl1gsn@gmx.de ###################### 2. >From:"Murray Stokely" I would suggest FreeBSD for your needs. A number of FreeBSD users have reported good luck with the Protege 3480CT. I am not as sure about the IBM machine. FreeBSD will support much more of the hardware on this machine than Solaris will. In fact, there will not be an Intel port of Solaris 9 (they are re-focusing solely on SPARC). Unfortunately, the sound card and internal modem are cheap-proprietary devices that will only work with Windows. However,you can choose from any number of PCMCIA modems and network cards for your machine. #################################### 3.From: "M. Warner Losh" I know that the IBM x20 is a little better supported for the pccards that you can insert into it. There is an irda stack for freebsd, but no bluetooth one. There's great 802.11b support in FreeBSD. The portege has a few minor problems with using multiple cards at the same time. I have no experience with Solaris on intel, so I can't help you there. Warner ######################################## 4.From:"Bara Zani" I would take ibm over any laptop in the market go with FreeBSD and not solaris ( better drivers , more apps etc .. ) ===== Your Respectfully Gerus(priwat person) 20306 Hamburg 36 ,Germany Postlagernd Att:Mr.Sw.Gerus tel: 0049-(0)178 -5545949 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message