Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 18:19:01 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <20090524161901.GB3776@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20090524165611.1c6d0b31.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4A17FFAF.4010400@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905231808430.25076@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <BAY126-DS360C373365E30C34D8157CA570@phx.gbl> <1243112254.1200.11.camel@RabbitsDen> <4A194F19.9070106@FreeBSD.org> <20090524135229.GA3410@current.Sisis.de> <20090524165611.1c6d0b31.freebsd@edvax.de>
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El día Sunday, May 24, 2009 a las 04:56:11PM +0200, Polytropon escribió: > On Sun, 24 May 2009 15:52:29 +0200, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > > I have a real netbook, an EeePC 900 with 20 GByte SSD, Wifi, 1024x600 9" > > display and an attached USB Huawei E220 dongel for UMTS. I have > > installed 8-CURRENT and all works as it should, only the inbuild cam is > > not supported, but I don't neet this at the moment (maybe later when Skype > > for FreeBSD can do video as well). > > I would tend to buy one myself in the future, especially for > LAN and WLAN diagnostics (at the customer's site). I like the > concept of the SSD in opposite to a "moving parts" classical > hard disk. Size and battery life are okay (for what they are > intended for), and I think older models of the EeePC will > get a bit cheaper over the time. I'm very greedy, so I mostly > think: "Do I REALLY need this - and spend money on it?" :-) I'm using mine one for reading books in Spanish and writing private stuff; I have a Spanish dictionary on it and an offline version of the Spanish Wikipedia. As well I use it to connect to Internet when I'm sitting in a beer garden to access things I wanna read. It is a netbook per definition. And really cool. The battery (6600 mAh) gives me around 4.5 hours autonomy, but often I find a point with power. > There is a nice description about how to install FreeBSD on > this device at http://www.unixarea.de/installEeePC.txt - and > I can't wait to try this out. But I'm sure I would not want > to run KDE or Gnome on this thing... why? it just runs fast on it; The above description is still on RELENG_7 level, I will update it soon for CURRENT which is I run now. > > Of course, it would be nice to have access to the camera (at > least you paid for it), be it by Skype or simply by mencoder. > Maybe it will be supported in the future. > > By the way, can you tell me how expensive (approx.) is the > UMTS dongle, and how much is using it? (I'm curious, and > since you're from a .de domain, your answer should apply > to me, too.) I have a flat rate SIM and PCMCIA card from the company I'm working for. And bought the UMTS dongle for my private usage in eBay for around 35 euro, I think. I'm using it nearly every evening. > -- > Polytropon > >From Magdeburg, Germany I lived in Westeregeln and went to school in Egeln :-) > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 happy since 2.2.5 (around 1997, I think). matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use FreeBSD.
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