Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 15:46:55 -0700 From: Jim Mock <jim@luna.cdrom.com> To: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd on a laptop Message-ID: <20000509154655.A13110@luna.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005091646390.87705-100000@home.offwhite.net>; from brennan@offwhite.net on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:54:29PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005091646390.87705-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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On Tue, 09 May 2000 at 16:54:29 -0500, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > Soon I will have the option to have my company purchase me a computer > for the office. I have a FreeBSD box and an iMac at home which allows > me to do all of the work that I do here. My only limitation is that I > am not mobile. > > I would like to have a laptop, but being connected to the internet > and the development server while at, say, the beach, is not realistic > right now. Instead I would like to have a laptop with a Unix/Linux > system on it which can run apache/perl so that I can do my development > work no matter if I am connected to the internet or not. > > Anyone know of how FreeBSD or any other BSD runs on a laptop? How > does X like a laptop? Any major or minor concerns? It runs fine. I have had two Sony VAIO laptops running it, and there are a bunch of other folks with laptops.. most are VAIOs, but there's a Toshiba Satellite, and a Dell. I think all of the of the VAIOs, actually :-) Depending on what the laptop has in it, it could be a bit of a PITA to install -- what I usually keep a Windows parition around on it so I can use the Winmodem if I'm on the road and forget to take a pccard modem :-) Doing the install that way makes it really simple. If you get a model with a built in fxp0, doing a network install probably would be a no-brainer as well. - jim -- - jim mock - walnut creek cdrom/freebsd test labs - jim@luna.cdrom.com - - phone: 1.925.691.2800 x.3814 - fax: 1.925.674.0821 - jim@FreeBSD.org - - editor - The FreeBSDzine - www.freebsdzine.org - jim@freebsdzine.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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