From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 9 14:34:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38EEE1065676 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:34:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lme@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.ipv6.0x20.net [IPv6:2001:aa8:fffb::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F308FC25 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:34:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lme@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [217.69.67.217]) by mail.0x20.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A13863A5EC; Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:34:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 193.109.238.110 ([193.109.238.110]) by 0x20.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:34:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20080709163415.sqz7ibbvj4cgkoso@0x20.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:34:15 +0200 From: Lars Engels To: rsidd120@gmail.com References: <6a506d980807090304i1b7bde5ah66fcc9690b7b0f1e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6a506d980807090304i1b7bde5ah66fcc9690b7b0f1e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=_46kmp5rkdri8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.3) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions on FreeBSD today X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:34:17 -0000 This message is in MIME format and has been PGP signed. --=_46kmp5rkdri8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoting Rahul Siddharthan : > I've been away from FreeBSD for a few years -- I briefly gave > 7.0-CURRENT a spin last year, on an old laptop, but didn't > stick with it. However, I'll likely be getting a new laptop soon > and I'm tired of linux (and especially tired of Ubuntu, which > thinks it's smarter than me.) > > So I'm seriously considering FreeBSD 7. On the plus side, I've > done quite a lot of C programming (though not system-level) > since I last used FreeBSD, so I can try some hackery if I need to. > On the minus side, I don't want to spend all my time fixing ports > or patching device drivers -- I'd rather have a system that just > works, and lets me focus on my work. Anyway, I have a few > questions: > > 1. My biggest peeve was the tendency to crash when pulling > out USB memory sticks (especially if they were mounted, > but sometimes even if they were unmounted). Kris Kennaway > told me in a private mail that this has been fixed in 8-CURRENT. > Is that so, and has it been MFC'd? Yes, that's fixed in CURRENT. I don't know if it is / will be merged =20 back to STABLE. > 3. How good is Wine on FreeBSD? Can I expect it to be almost > as good as Wine on Linux? It is not as good as Wine on Linux, but it's pretty good already. I =20 use it from time to time. > 5. Do linux binaries that require ALSA (eg, flash plugin 9/10) > work? There's a very buggy port of flash 9 which crashes you browser _but_ =20 as you like to use wine, you can just run Windows Firefox with Flash =20 plugin 9/10 without problems. > > 6. Can I run Windows Vista (likely to be preinstalled -- no > choice) under Xen or qemu? Sorry, no support for Xen yet. AFAIK there is some work ongoing to get =20 VirtualBox running on FreeBSD, but I don't know the current status. =20 qemu runs nicely with kqemu-kmod. I don't know if you can run Vista =20 with it. I heard that XP doesn't run too fast with it but can be usable. > 7. How good is power management, in particular cpufreq > and ACPI suspend-to-RAM? (I suppose the answer depends > on the laptop model.) You are right here. It depends on the model. There are some problems =20 which prevent multi-core machines to resume after suspend, so you'd =20 need to disable all but one core. FreeBSD is a great system, but you hit some of its weak spots here. ;-) Lars --=_46kmp5rkdri8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: Digitale PGP-Unterschrift Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkh0zGcACgkQKc512sD3afg+XwCfW0TZW+zkTEyH4SjzM6B3LdBo mY0An3Yr45UpJbmwH7TKpxahnla+29Y0 =LCFK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_46kmp5rkdri8--