Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:11:23 +0700 From: Phan Quoc Hien <phanquochien@gmail.com> To: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which OS for notebook Message-ID: <AANLkTinmWn7mDrjfafMfp%2BVMVCA-SJJw8TjR_nraP4td@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CABD4ED.9000103@gmail.com> References: <AANLkTin644c3dZ0NNbJzeqXvuyLwTF67Ed=zJSoM9w6g@mail.gmail.com> <20101005171851.GC70749@guilt.hydra> <AANLkTinkTDYhDRaBa3K6DgbuEL_q3SXgxC1od9wxxiBa@mail.gmail.com> <4CABD4ED.9000103@gmail.com>
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Hello everyone, Which laptop vendor is best support for FreeBSD ? Thanks. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ] >>> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Best regards, Mr.Hien E-mail: phanquochien@gmail.com Website: www.mrhien.infohelp
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