Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 09:11:27 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, johannes@brilliantservice.co.jp Subject: Re: looking for new netbook Message-ID: <20141128081127.GA1544@unixarea.DDR.dd> In-Reply-To: <20141128040356.28633.qmail@ary.lan> References: <CAASDrVnok2YcCs7qJ1E%2BiXkWO1xVA_EPJmCJA=nr_jbp2etC-Q@mail.gmail.com> <20141128040356.28633.qmail@ary.lan>
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El día Friday, November 28, 2014 a las 04:03:56AM -0000, John Levine escribió: > In article <CAASDrVnok2YcCs7qJ1E+iXkWO1xVA_EPJmCJA=nr_jbp2etC-Q@mail.gmail.com> you write: > >Personally I haven't had so much time lately to contribute but I hope we > >can have FreeBSD running on Macbook Air soon... > > I run FreeBSD in a a Virtualbox virtual machine on my Macbook. It is > straightforward to have X clients in the VM talk to windows in the > native xquartz X server. Thanks for all feedback I received. To make this clear: I want to have a netbook type laptop (as laptop I use Dell E6330 which works just fine with FreeBSD). I was asking for a 10 or 11 inch size model. Re/ Mac, for a bunch of reasons Mac is a no go for me, not as laptop and not as mobile cellphone. One reason you can Google for with 'Apple stories'. > This works for me a lot better than native FreeBSD on a laptop -- my > last computer was a Lenovo X400 running FreeBSD natively, and I wasted > too much time trying to get Chrome and other third party X apps to > work. Now I can run Chrome on MacOS, and the stuff under FreeBSD that > works better there. I can not remember any laptop which at the end not worked fine. Of course, one has to pre-check the components and maybe change, for example. the Wifi chip or use an USB dongle as Wifi. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-170-4527211 1989-2014: The Wall was torn down so that we go to war together again. El Muro ha sido derribado para que nos unimos en ir a la guerra otra vez. Diese Grenze wurde aufgehoben damit wir gemeinsam wieder in den Krieg ziehen.
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