From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 11:51:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744AC1065679 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:51:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4437D8FC2B for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:51:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.101]) by mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4428DAFC1C6; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:51:09 -0900 (AKST) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:51:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <7f8a05a80811171609h2f5742cfo2ae003415a99e45f@mail.gmail.com> <49227279.8040607@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20081118122350.X84157@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20081118122350.X84157@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811181251.07972.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: stephen jackson , Wojciech Puchar Subject: Re: FreeBSD and hardware?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:51:10 -0000 On Tuesday 18 November 2008 12:27:42 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > If you're thinking of trying out FreeBSD, then this is the right place to > > come. A word of warning though: it's not at all like Windows, or even > > MacOSX. You will be expected to learn quite a bit about the low level > > MacOSX can run unix programs, but in every other respect is not like unix > as you said. > > > nitty-gritty of the OS in order to achieve the best results. Of course, > > the "best results" are very good indeed, and in my humble opinion, well > > worth the effort required. > > > > Installing on laptop type hardware is a tricky proposition: it's very > > much luck of the draw whether your particular model has sufficient driver > > support > > For FreeBSD supported laptops Lenovo as generally good choice. Not anymore. They were when it was still IBM. Some in-depth discussion here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2008-July/010831.html And of course, there's: http://www.ixsystems.com/products/bsd-laptop.html -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.