Recommended laptops for FreeBSD 6.x ...
Chuck Stearns
chuckstearns at ozymo.com
Sat May 12 01:53:32 UTC 2007
I've had generally goo experiences with 7.0 on a Gateway MT3705, except
the ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M doesn't seem to work. (found a "port" for
fglrx, but haven't tried it yet...)
Earlier versions won't detect the NIC, it's a Marvell Yukon.
/cs
rasmith at tamu.edu wrote:
> From: Freddie Cash <fcash at ocis.net>
> Subject: Re: Recommended laptops for FreeBSD 6.x ...
> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 15:20:17 -0700
>
>> The Satellite line of Toshiba laptops are pretty much crap. I've yet to
>> find a Satellite user that likes their laptop. Even when running Windows
>> XP on it. Getting non-Windows OSes running on them tends to be a
>> frustrating endeavor.
>
> May I introduce you to a Satellite user who likes his laptop? I
> haven't used FreeBSD on it (though my desktop and a couple of servers
> I admin are all 6.2-STABLE), but Ubuntu Linux is basically trouble free on
> my Satellite U205. I bought it in December and installed Ubuntu Edgy
> immediately (all hardware detected without trouble). The only issues
> are the fingerprint reader (never bothered to try) and suspend-to-ram
> suspend-to-disk works fine). Very sharp screen, light weight, nice
> keyboard feel, solidly built.
>
> I suppose this is a little off-topic since I haven't tried FreeBSD
> on it, but it's a relevant data point.
>
> Robin Smith
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