From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 3 17:29:51 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 38E9AD74 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 17:29:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.ilk.org [23.30.133.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B80D1351 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 17:29:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.41]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 749B633C24; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 12:29:45 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 35AD339830; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 12:29:44 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Michel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Camir=E9?= Subject: Re: Qemu / freeBsd on Android. References: Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:29:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: ("Michel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Camir=E9=22's?= message of "Mon, 2 Dec 2013 20:38:47 -0500") Message-ID: <44mwkhg7w8.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:29:51 -0000 Michel Camir=E9 writes: > I'm completely new to freeBsd wich I intend to use via Qemu on my Samsung > Galaxy Note 8 , Gt N5110 . Some say freeBsd is dead and that it would be > better to consider Gnu/Linux as a successor. I don't know. I have some > experience with Dos so, a command line doesn't look lethal to me. > I would like to install a Gui in freeBsd 1st, and after install music > applications from open sources like RoseGarden. Or maybe installing a > different Os instead of freeBsd in Qemu. > What do you think/ recommend. I think the emulated machine you'll be presented with will be *very* slow and limited for running complicated software, or even a bit-mapped GUI. Maybe try FreeDOS first, and realize that you'll be wanting to tune QEMU quite a bit for the emulation capabilities. Good luck.