From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 20 21:36:42 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 D1005106566B for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 21:36:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A748FC0A for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 21:36:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn5 with SMTP id 5so374119iwn.13 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 14:36:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=G+jbWeBCZciw8mFT0wrOUYD5H6wat4qwVCEzchtp8/o=; b=TAVxdjtqtGZHK1UJC6ki3q5r7mpUIlttcI0HseiSDjQ6R0xgmK8no9qLK22+Xd0AQb xOorT0RmVsCTO4NtMVSwi061g9jxBTt7iIhmshC8qga4E2jiL1H9HAFfalF7Vn+S1mGf 06JK7AJOJVL4B5H4gT3qPmD3OXRrkJL9XAkFI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=EjoDYndGbwS1+JvVZ3L+ritRdYPaJ4QDAUvhhC5yLOHZuVaVXBEPS8alfq+q81ozV0 ukjwpV/clQ/dMs08i1qpG5n5+kj8ktv0BrN6o8UZsDyA48PH3zb0OVKv1hUrePEVB01B uxPCDO1XpqwJeH3SJ4Wul7ZmQT+9Ao6YfCTeM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.150.4 with SMTP id w4mr691880ibv.41.1274391401723; Thu, 20 May 2010 14:36:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.141.215 with HTTP; Thu, 20 May 2010 14:36:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100520090848.39faaa3f@icy.localdomain> References: <20100520090848.39faaa3f@icy.localdomain> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:36:41 -0600 Message-ID: From: Tim Judd To: Anh Ky Huynh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd on netbook 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: Thu, 20 May 2010 21:36:42 -0000 On 5/19/10, Anh Ky Huynh wrote: > Hello all, > > I intend to buy a netbook for convenience (for many remote jobs, a netbook > seems to be enough) whose cost is around $400. I'd like have freebsd on that > netbook (oh, no linux, no windows, please :-) but it's hard to choose a > right one that works fine (even with Ubuntu. See > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Netbooks.) > > Does anyone experience this problem? > > Thank you for your comments. Got an HP Mini 311 that's not FreeBSD friendly. it's a completely nVidia-based system with Atom CPU.