Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:46:21 -0300 From: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which OS for notebook Message-ID: <4CABD4ED.9000103@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinkTDYhDRaBa3K6DgbuEL_q3SXgxC1od9wxxiBa@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTin644c3dZ0NNbJzeqXvuyLwTF67Ed=zJSoM9w6g@mail.gmail.com> <20101005171851.GC70749@guilt.hydra> <AANLkTinkTDYhDRaBa3K6DgbuEL_q3SXgxC1od9wxxiBa@mail.gmail.com>
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El 05/10/2010 02:29 p.m., Phan Quoc Hien escribió: > Hello. I have same question here. > My laptop is HP Pavilion dv4 series, can run fine on FreeBSD or other > opensource OS? > Thanks! Please, take a look at the following thread before going any further: "HP Envy 14 laptop damaged by FreeBSD 8.1 install" http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=17683 > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Chad Perrin<perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:11:30AM -0300, Leandro F Silva wrote: >>> >>> Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? >>> Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. >> >> I'm using FreeBSD on my Lenovo ThinkPad T60. One of the nice things >> about choosing FreeBSD for my laptop OS of choice is that, unlike MS >> Windows 7, I do not need to get the latest and greatest hardware to get >> acceptable performance. >> >> Of course, there are downsides to my choice, such as the lack of proper >> hardware acceleration with an AMD/ATI graphics adapter, but since I have >> stopped playing World of Warcraft (any computer game bores me after a >> little while), there is little need for that kind of thing. >> >> When deciding what to use, the first thing you need to do is figure out >> your needs. What kind of hardware do you need to support? How much ACPI >> support is "enough"? What do you need your software to do? There is no >> OS that does everything better than any other OS. This applies to >> Ubuntu, MS Windows, and FreeBSD (and pretty much everything else, too). >> >> Because my requirements for hardware are reasonably simple, my >> requirements for software capabilities take precedent. As such, out of >> the various OSes with which I am comfortable to some degree, I pretty >> much get to choose whatever OS I want. Given my requirements for >> software capabilities, FreeBSD is the obvious choice. >> >> -- >> Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] >> > > >
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