From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jul 4 22:20:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-51.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4901A37B6E6 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 22:20:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA08012; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 22:27:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007050527.WAA08012@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Lee Weng Seng" Cc: "Michel Talon" , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why run FreeBSD on a laptop? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jul 2000 13:01:19 +0800." <00c701bfe63e$38fb0900$b89d75cb@tdprk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 22:27:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > My sweet puppy is a 3500 too and running on fbsd 3.4. > > Maybe this question sounds odd but why would anyone want to run fbsd on a > laptop? As for me, I use it as a test machine for web server to resides, > while I beg for more money for an entry level PowerEdge. That's an interesting question, and I'm sure you'll get a slew of different answers. For me: - I don't use anything other than FreeBSD for "real" work, so it makes sense that my laptop should run it. - The only mail clients that I like run under FreeBSD (or other *nix systems). A better answer might be the question "why would I want to run anything else on it"? -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message