From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 15:46:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luna.cdrom.com (luna.cdrom.com [204.216.28.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E68037BAB8 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 15:46:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@luna.cdrom.com) Received: by luna.cdrom.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7A35C31E7; Tue, 9 May 2000 15:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 15:46:55 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Brennan W Stehling Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd on a laptop Message-ID: <20000509154655.A13110@luna.cdrom.com> Reply-To: jim@luna.cdrom.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3i In-Reply-To: ; from brennan@offwhite.net on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:54:29PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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