From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Sep 27 4:12:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from inga.augusta.de (inga.augusta.de [213.179.139.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3CE37B443 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 04:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from case@localhost) by inga.augusta.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA35774 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:12:10 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:12:10 +0200 From: Wolfgang Kess To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which is better ? Message-ID: <20010927131209.A34063@inga.augusta.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jens@jensgreven.de on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:09:41AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:09:41AM +0200, Jens Greven wrote: > For running on a laptop, FBSD is cool, because since DOS6.2 I've never seen > an OS booting so quick, so it's possible to shut down and reboot when yes, I agree too. The 4.4, no X of course :), is running very nice on my vintage AT&T 486-SX25 Notebook. But you dare a make buildworld it runs about 42 hour ;-) > neccessary. But you should make sure, that your hardware is supported. I > myself have a Dell Inspiron 8000 with nVidia Geforce 2 Go, and it's really a > pain in the a**... No chance to get XFree running under FreeBSD (I've heard I purchased a Dell Latitude C800 without this fancy nVidia. The ATI Mobility is supported. Take a look at XIGs index of supported Notebooks by manufacturer http://www.xig.com/Pages/LX/LaptopMfgrs/Laptops_Dell.html Wolfgang To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message