Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:56:15 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD@keyslapper.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Laptop questions Message-ID: <20050911195615.GC54251@keyslapper.net>
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--VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hey all. I'm on the verge of getting myself a laptop. As this is my first laptop, and I'm rewarding myself for a recent accomplishment, I figured I'd go all out and get the top of the line Dell. I know, IBM has some great notebooks, as does Gateway and particularly Apple. I'd like to get an Apple, but that would be out of line with the reason I'm rewarding myself. Bottom line, I'll need to keep Windows on the system - relevant to the event for which I'm rewarding myself. Still, I'd really, REALLY like to get FreeBSD (or some other *BSD) and/or *maybe* a Linux distro on there as well. The hard drive is going to be a 100G, so I could probably squeeze at least 2 OSes on without much trouble. So the question: Has anyone successfully installed and run FreeBSD (or any other *BSD or Linux distro) on a Dell Inspirion XPS Gen 2? I'm planning to max out the RAM, include wireless networking, and sticking with the 2GHz CPU. Other than that, it's pretty standard fare. Any success stories would be most welcome. If anyone has found that FreeBSD is not suited for this system (yet), or a specific Linux distro is ideally suited for this system, that would be a most welcome piece of info as well. Lou --=20 Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD-at-keyslapper-DOT-net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) Please send off-list email to: leblanc at keyslapper d.t net Key fingerprint =3D C5E7 4762 F071 CE3B ED51 4FB8 AF85 A2FE 80C8 D9A2 Shannon's Observation: Nothing is so frustrating as a bad situation that is beginning to improve. --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDJIvfr4Wi/oDI2aIRAiabAJ40d0RlcV3Sz20b88G1eM2+lQkefACggFbL Xwe9aBN4Vi2RWBDyKW30oqk= =dEBR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J--
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