Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:54:35 -0500 From: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> To: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Recommended laptop for FreeBSD 10.2 Xfce workstation? Message-ID: <CAFKhKgoHE9NOrW0XO9ZjPw5s5GHr9RF9Dqjiqr1awCiXTMcd8g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <56FB5230.2070703@holgerdanske.com> References: <56FB5230.2070703@holgerdanske.com>
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I have an old Toshiba Portege R705-P25 that works out of the box with FreeBSD 10.1. Wifi, ethernet, usb ports, sound, and hdmi ports work, although I have to set the volume up with mixer at boot-up. I have the following software working: Xorg Slim Mate XFCE LXDE Firefox Freerdp VirtualBox with Windows 7 Professional 32bit AbiWord Gnumeric Filezilla 7zip Xchat VLC I have not tried to install any of the large office suites or large multimedia players (Banshee, Amarok, Rythmbox, etc) When I have a computer with wifi compatibility issues, I prefer to use the universal wifi adapters that attach to ethernet ports rather than usb ports. Best of luck, Andrew On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:12 PM, David Christensen < dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > freebsd-questions: > > Thank you for the replies so far. :-) > > > Is there such a thing as a "reference laptop" that FreeBSD is developed > and validated against? > > > Failing that, I'm going to lower the bar and ask if there are *any* > laptops that meet my basic needs OOTB: > > I'm looking for a new or used laptop that is known to work > correctly with FreeBSD 10.2, Xfce, Firefox, Thunderbird, (whatever > free) Office, etc., plus encryption and virtualization. > > > David > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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