From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 13:33:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 959B2106566B for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 13:33:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bdsfbsd@att.net) Received: from smtp125.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (smtp125.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [69.147.65.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 764D78FC12 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 13:33:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 41216 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2010 13:33:05 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=att.net; s=s1024; t=1286371985; bh=ls93nz3JKA+RWQBxCokQkxQCs6uVo5cUlwupl4aRU9k=; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Content-Type:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding:From:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:User-Agent; b=4Hc8y4WvE1lylLRxIaVjtVcpSnc4La9biUkoc9Q9iUh12EXDXEoBPqKcUiYfxwEctR7stuMP84Q037ZQSlT2wG6X+FAbluBC5u5mG4w9RZAsa2VrVb5NPiLQQ892al13UQ9hRTzwytVwbTGvDbeAN6NkUdQNTWlFrScnzLIpriQ= Received: from ack5833s2.ad.service.osu.edu (bdsfbsd@128.146.175.36 with login) by smtp125.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 06 Oct 2010 06:33:04 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: d5tX3UiswBBe7eAro3WwBCIcMc7tMmv23kUXyA-- X-YMail-OSG: ptpFjagVM1mdY4Rhe2MlHOdJSvDJl_Y6aVakfo776iUt3JP s4HPV_8UQ24IiIMsGMUV8W17j5vDhwepFzLO_nD7xCgVfm37W7pWNxGCu9kO .OCj5E_br8XNfAbh1BWvCxSg.ZiIszCHsI1HTM_oBgEKAly1NpAqA929T_Oe RP.zN36KB9Cjb2gU8p0auaJ4PUdRD8YzKGrfXnlTnxGe8rxJlBFCJUfcM8MF hSUnllQ_VF5Sk64bi3G8dlHLNb.Te4FtZ0ML51snVIEnrXol7lMctT2lR6aR mj1iw X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: "Mikle Krutov" , "Matthias Apitz" References: <20101004233302.GA62267@takino.homeftp.org> <20101004195012.GA2023@tiny> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:33:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable From: bdsfbsd@att.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20101004195012.GA2023@tiny> User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.62 (Win32) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netbooks & BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:33:05 -0000 On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:50:12 -0400, Matthias Apitz = wrote: > El d=EDa Monday, October 04, 2010 a las 11:33:02PM +0000, Mikle Krutov= = > escribi=F3: > >> Hello, list! >> I'm going to buy a netbook soon, so a question is which one. >> The choice is between >> 1) Samsung N127 >> 2) ASUS Eee PC 900AX >> 3) MSI U120-094 >> Which one is the best for running FreeBSD? >> "The best" mainly is for opensource (e.g. not ndis) & stable wireless= >> drivers. >> So, any good experience and suggestions? >> Thank you for your time! > > I have no idea about which would be the best one, > but I'm using right now (in the moment of typing) an EeePC 900, > details here: http://www.unixarea.de/installEeePC-8CURRENT.txt > and this is just fine; > > HIH > > matthias > +1 on EeePC, mine being the 1000. This uses a not-yet-supported wireless= = card (rt2860), but a driver is available and seems to work fine: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D7010 http://repo.or.cz/w/ralink_drivers.git (Contrary to the troll-bait happening in a similar thread right now..) Matthias took the plunge for KDE, which I do like, but for my Eee I went= = with Xfce. Matthias' work and documentation is more thorough than mine, = so = I'm looking thorough it for ideas. BTW, the specs on the 900AX make me think that Asus is using the model t= o = offload old hardware. But if the price is very low, it still may be wort= h = it. Personally I prefer to have an SSD instead of HDD, and I wouldn't wa= nt = a screen any smaller than the 10". Brian