Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:48:40 -0500 From: "David Robillard" <david.robillard@gmail.com> To: g <burk@sumail.ru> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Best laptop for Freebsd Message-ID: <226ae0c60611160748v4c3d4290ld1a7ca568dcee4f4@mail.gmail.com>
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> Hi Folks, > > Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month > or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For > those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan > would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd, and > most likely fedora. I had no problems getting my wireless to > work on the old one using the ndis stuff and freebsd beat the other > two hands down for performance. > > Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as > this is my day in day out operating system). > > Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. > > > thanks > > Geoff Hi Geoff, It's not FreeBSD, but may I suggest an Apple PowerBook running MacOS X ? Or the new MacBook line? I use a PowerBook G4 under MacOS X 10.4.8 as an administration system everyday to manage around 50+ FreeBSD servers. I connect to my server's serial consoles via a USB-to-Serial adapter from Keyspan with ZTerm. You also have access to a ports-like environement on MacOS X via http://www.macports.org/ and http://www.darwinports.com/. It works great. My two cents. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122
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