From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 11 01:19:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477E116A46F for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:19:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCEC943D45 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:19:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id m7so491856nzf for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:19:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tRmGBvSzLwh7KBs99fgnSJpAZiFGc4shou9jbAO4H1yQJTd5LjclHOhnNXYPi9ebcranYBL1aqGsBAYpQ2pprtU7xseqYrtyA4283cgUCO4i0ILvvSvl2J5Wi3+Fsn345xvSrizqA05urYq8GHD0MH1erniukzSSRaxNH2R7dbM= Received: by 10.36.55.12 with SMTP id d12mr6458451nza; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:19:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.104.17 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:19:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 20:19:51 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Derek Jander" In-Reply-To: <159b320e0606100145j5b8af20du931e6672b5e292ee@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <159b320e0606100145j5b8af20du931e6672b5e292ee@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on laptops 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: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:19:52 -0000 On 6/10/06, Derek Jander wrote: > Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP Professional > to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have > some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some firend > told me about FreeBSD. I just tested it on a Virtual Machine and it looks > great. My doubt now, is if it will be very difficult to make it work on my > machine. I really need the internal modem, and of course the Wireless and > stuff... And I can't be dealing with it for months.... Anyone who had > already installed FBSD on that sistem (HP nx9030) could post any comment? > Any help will be appreciated. > If you looking for a first time BSD desktop (KDE) then try PC-BSD. and If you can't get that to run (PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD) give SuSE 10.1 a go. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/