From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 05:11:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 285CB16A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:11:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail4.ewetel.de (mail4-141.ewetel.de [212.6.122.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759FB43D2F for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:11:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) Received: from athena.laverenz.de (dialin-80-228-11-220.ewetel.net [80.228.11.220]) by mail4.ewetel.de (8.12.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2MDBLqb023528; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:11:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost.laverenz.de [127.0.0.1]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F0957F40; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:11:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from athena.laverenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (athena.laverenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27429-02; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:11:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from laverenz.de (voodoo.laverenz.de [192.168.100.3]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6377D57C93; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:11:13 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <405EE5E1.4010208@laverenz.de> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:10:57 +0100 From: Uwe Laverenz Organization: private site User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ecrist@adtechintegrated.com References: <200403201743.14451.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> In-Reply-To: <200403201743.14451.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at laverenz.de X-CheckCompat: OK cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best *nix OS for a laptop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:11:30 -0000 Eric F Crist wrote: > Could some of you please send me an email telling me what OS you utilize on > your laptop, and why? I'm not looking for anyone bashing any other OS, just > why you use what you do. I run FreeBSD 5.2.1 (RELENG_5_2) on my IBM A31 now and everything works well for me. Before I was able to run FreeBSD on this machine, I used to run RedHat, Fedora and Debian GNU/Linux on that machine for a while (I really liked RedHat/Fedora). The problem is, that all Linux-Distributions have their issues, technically or politically... cu, Uwe