free bsd on laptops

[Doug Barton]

On 08/06/2010 03:25, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Hi,
> Reference:
>> From:		Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> 
>> Date:		Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:55:49 -0700 
>> Message-id:	<4C5BC005.1050101 at FreeBSD.org> 
> 
> Doug Barton wrote:
>> Before proceeding on the details, there is a more important question.
>> What is your purpose for setting up a FreeBSD laptop? If your purpose is
>> to have a reasonable environment on which to do FreeBSD development,
>> that's fine, we can do that pretty well. If you just want an "open
>> source OS" to run your laptop, and you want to spend most of your time
>> actually using things like mail, www, etc.; then FreeBSD is a very poor
> ...................................................^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> choice, you'd be much better off with one of the Linux variants,
> ^^^^^^^^
>> particularly Ubuntu.
> 
> Troll noise does credibility of sender & FreeBSD no good.

Lying to people hurts our credibility even more. :)  It is absolutely
true that as a general purpose desktop platform FreeBSD lags WAY behind
other open source options. Without knowing the specific needs of the OP
it's impossible to give suggestions on what would be a suitable
solution, or whether any of FreeBSD's deficiencies in this area are
likely to affect him directly.


Doug

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