From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 5 17:29:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F0A106566B for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 17:29:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phanquochien@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ADD08FC0C for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 17:29:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb29 with SMTP id 29so5959518wyb.13 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:29:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=NK85rxSKwO9sjU1P6idU9GjTdQwSuaGDFDsXWAqPFK8=; b=hSmbaQ0JUjcJB0oY+16a6ABJeXrSsHkpzr2T1q7bhNHNquSLzmC/qFAv4jRJWxArYs URTeKoJemZXdNvbKyvg3rWoCBAzLyqBhdtQWwy5lRLnYSydJQE6ksqDssrpXsi19LUmU BBXMst6HTiOOQEz8bn6x9qmwNv/2JVK8IYi18= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AjMGL4JsZdFJvdkaVjz5b9dpK4A6baqHJ8ey0inTkUXNpQwUYTZqaIpXTI6wCM1cUt +tUUHfDWQAeBrVaYuOIaWpPpc5e7joU5/0fgFcomKPL2xxZmJfvtOdAR+pILv3NcDEAS BofQ+nQ0XSoR2b0NoFuwjRE8emNL3Mw4BXnQ0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.142.8 with SMTP id o8mr10181668wbu.16.1286299769748; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:29:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.142.194 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:29:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20101005171851.GC70749@guilt.hydra> References: <20101005171851.GC70749@guilt.hydra> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 00:29:29 +0700 Message-ID: From: Phan Quoc Hien To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Which OS for notebook 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: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:29:35 -0000 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 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