From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 19:54:23 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 6AF53106566B for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 19:54:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D5E98FC0C for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 19:54:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 19414E806E7; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:54:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:54:35 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: bdsfbsd@att.net Message-ID: <20101006195435.GC25141@thought.org> References: <20101004233302.GA62267@takino.homeftp.org> <20101004195012.GA2023@tiny> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Mikle Krutov , Matthias Apitz , 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 19:54:23 -0000 On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 09:33:08AM -0400, bdsfbsd@att.net wrote: > On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:50:12 -0400, Matthias Apitz > wrote: > > >El día Monday, October 04, 2010 a las 11:33:02PM +0000, Mikle > >Krutov escribió: > > > >>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=7010 > 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 to offload old hardware. But if the price is very low, it > still may be worth it. Personally I prefer to have an SSD instead of > HDD, and I wouldn't want a screen any smaller than the 10". > > Brian This brings a question to mind; maybe you know; maybe somebody else on the list does. Say that I buy an EEE 10" Atom, max out the memory and go for a 160G hard drive. Will I be able to upgrade to a SSD in a few years? gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org