From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 01:46:27 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 A6785106564A for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 01:46:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnemmi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gw0-f54.google.com (mail-gw0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD578FC12 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 01:46:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb15 with SMTP id 15so2928168gwb.13 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:46:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tqoL1bS2xMrDZ6URwcAQxPHJAhw7L2IhgzsdPX5GGy0=; b=SIxZ5sKzmk84WXrkHS538SCyH+X447Hasgkn/Oy/nxJYQRpFpoKLJ33OKsq2e/vNrP DT7uDexvh/XpLkr6RCsGehsTrF3PdvUbSAO/8Mscthgw9z+3m0E2Bi3ZNoDgGAgLSTYu P1h7Rd/wbfYfOsGkXEQyzN55ZhS1pKTlEjqZ8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=t89cny6Bw0Rfhpmlv4m/Afj3zD2jSZlgqqpgUVB/I4ApljKgdNxXIo47YJbq2dmczL 5H4IeR1noXaYkLzLtHoL3EiUNev0Nvn2pG1whfjpSJItUTEbbS3kX9mg7NXG0s6HISg+ 4fy6f0qIen4BNigf2SSBW0tyXLYe/54vT77xU= Received: by 10.100.213.4 with SMTP id l4mr4977194ang.35.1286329585572; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:46:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.5] (host211.190-230-73.telecom.net.ar [190.230.73.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i28sm321608anh.10.2010.10.05.18.46.23 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CABD4ED.9000103@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:46:21 -0300 From: Gonzalo Nemmi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20101005171851.GC70749@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:46:27 -0000 El 05/10/2010 02:29 p.m., Phan Quoc Hien escribió: > Hello. I have same question here. > My laptop is HP Pavilion dv4 series, can run fine on FreeBSD or other > opensource OS? > Thanks! Please, take a look at the following thread before going any further: "HP Envy 14 laptop damaged by FreeBSD 8.1 install" http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=17683 > 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. One 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. What kind of hardware do you need to support? How much ACPI >> support is "enough"? What do you need your software to do? There is no >> OS that does everything better than any other OS. This 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. As such, out of >> the various OSes with which I am comfortable to some degree, I pretty >> much get to choose whatever OS I want. Given my requirements for >> software capabilities, FreeBSD is the obvious choice. >> >> -- >> Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] >> > > >