From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 18:12:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE9B16A41F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:12:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@mypost.se) Received: from smtp-one-2.wash.one.se (smtp-one-2.one.se [213.80.101.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5294E43D6D for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:12:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@mypost.se) Received: from localhost (smtp-one-2.local [127.0.0.1]) by re-injector2.wash.one.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB55466CE6C for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:12:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp-one-2.wash.one.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp-one-2.wash.one.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06220-03 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:12:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from 81-170-153-180.bahnhofbredband.net (81-170-153-180.bahnhofbredband.net [81.170.153.180]) by smtp-one-2.wash.one.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 842E566CB89 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:12:08 +0100 (CET) From: Mark Rowlands To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:11:43 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <7349.212.160.155.37.1137518111.squirrel@poczta.b.win.pl> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601171911.58598.mark.rowlands@mypost.se> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at one.se (smtp-one-2) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.309 tagged_above=-999 required=7 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mark.rowlands@mypost.se List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:12:35 -0000 On Tuesday 17 January 2006 18:42, Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote: > but freebsd mostly > used as a server. not much suitable for PC usage. I really dislike this canard, I have run FreeBSD on a laptop since 3.4 and support for the hardware has generally been adequate, I guess it depends what you want to use it for. I wouldn't choose FreeBSD as an operating system for a media centre.....