From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 21:59:49 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 54AA61065670 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 21:59:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F27B38FC08 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 21:59:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 26860 invoked by uid 399); 6 Aug 2010 21:59:45 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 6 Aug 2010 21:59:45 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C5C85D0.6080903@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:59:44 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100804 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Julian H. Stacey" References: <201008061025.o76AP6gK016127@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <201008061025.o76AP6gK016127@fire.js.berklix.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mubeesh ali , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 21:59:49 -0000 On 08/06/2010 03:25, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > 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. Lying to people hurts our credibility even more. :) It is absolutely true that as a general purpose desktop platform FreeBSD lags WAY behind other open source options. Without knowing the specific needs of the OP it's impossible to give suggestions on what would be a suitable solution, or whether any of FreeBSD's deficiencies in this area are likely to affect him directly. Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso