From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 21 19:18:56 2009 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 AB79A1065692 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:18:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from guam10.hdk5.net (guam10.hdk5.net [66.180.132.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E8388FC19 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:18:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from mohawk7.intra.net (unknown [66.180.149.18]) by guam10.hdk5.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 423275C26; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:22:16 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <4A3E879F.6020708@hdk5.net> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:18:55 -1000 From: Al Plant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 FreeBSD/i386 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20090621055235.GA60649@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20090621055235.GA60649@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions? 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: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:18:57 -0000 Gary Kline wrote: > for the dedicated nerds on-list now on the weekend, i just edited [[ this > is my LAST edit ]] of ``slicejourney.php''. it goes away in ten days. > > i have another issue that has more to do with freebsd on the new and > lost cost notebook computers i had heard of. how many and which ones > work best with our flavor of BSD. turns out that sometimes things-ubuntu > fail, and i need something failsafe and with a keyboard. i'll explain > later, but if i can use a lightweight computer that has audio with the > kde apps, i can create a reasonably priced tts or speech synthesizer that > would be accessible to a great many people. instead of the $8-9 kilobuck > windose devs. > > > anybody know? > ############ Aloha Gary, Agree that that any Ubunto OS is bad on notebooks. I have an HP Mini 1000 that I have network issues with because Ubunto barfs up any static network settings. HP Tech Support gave me advice to replace it with FreeBSD 7.2. Try it from a flash drive first to test everything then replace the Ubunto. I hear some people on the list have FreeBSD on Asus Eee net books and it is working well. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + < email: noc@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol