Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 00:29:29 +0700 From: Phan Quoc Hien <phanquochien@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which OS for notebook Message-ID: <AANLkTinkTDYhDRaBa3K6DgbuEL_q3SXgxC1od9wxxiBa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101005171851.GC70749@guilt.hydra> References: <AANLkTin644c3dZ0NNbJzeqXvuyLwTF67Ed=zJSoM9w6g@mail.gmail.com> <20101005171851.GC70749@guilt.hydra>
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Hello. I have same question here. My laptop is HP Pavilion dv4 series, can run fine on FreeBSD or other opensource OS? Thanks! On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:11:30AM -0300, Leandro F Silva wrote: >> >> Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? >> Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. > > I'm using FreeBSD on my Lenovo ThinkPad T60. =A0One of the nice things > about choosing FreeBSD for my laptop OS of choice is that, unlike MS > Windows 7, I do not need to get the latest and greatest hardware to get > acceptable performance. > > Of course, there are downsides to my choice, such as the lack of proper > hardware acceleration with an AMD/ATI graphics adapter, but since I have > stopped playing World of Warcraft (any computer game bores me after a > little while), there is little need for that kind of thing. > > When deciding what to use, the first thing you need to do is figure out > your needs. =A0What kind of hardware do you need to support? =A0How much = ACPI > support is "enough"? =A0What do you need your software to do? =A0There is= no > OS that does everything better than any other OS. =A0This applies to > Ubuntu, MS Windows, and FreeBSD (and pretty much everything else, too). > > Because my requirements for hardware are reasonably simple, my > requirements for software capabilities take precedent. =A0As such, out of > the various OSes with which I am comfortable to some degree, I pretty > much get to choose whatever OS I want. =A0Given my requirements for > software capabilities, FreeBSD is the obvious choice. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > --=20 Best regards, Mr.Hien E-mail: phanquochien@gmail.com Website: www.mrhien.info
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