From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 10:54:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60ABA106566B for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:54:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD0B8FC14 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:54:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p549A7325.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.115.37]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o76APPWW090779; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:25:26 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o76APGjO017678; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:25:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o76AP6gK016127; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:25:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201008061025.o76AP6gK016127@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Mubeesh ali , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:55:49 PDT." <4C5BC005.1050101@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:25:06 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: Subject: Re: free bsd on laptops X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:54:37 -0000 Hi, Reference: > From: Doug Barton > Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:55:49 -0700 > Message-id: <4C5BC005.1050101@FreeBSD.org> Doug Barton wrote: > Before proceeding on the details, there is a more important question. > What is your purpose for setting up a FreeBSD laptop? If your purpose is > to have a reasonable environment on which to do FreeBSD development, > that's fine, we can do that pretty well. If you just want an "open > source OS" to run your laptop, and you want to spend most of your time > actually using things like mail, www, etc.; then FreeBSD is a very poor ...................................................^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > choice, you'd be much better off with one of the Linux variants, ^^^^^^^^ > particularly Ubuntu. Troll noise does credibility of sender & FreeBSD no good. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail in plain text, Not HTML, quoted-printable & base 64 dumped with spam. Avoid top posting, It criples itemised cumulative responses.