Hello. I have same question here. My laptop is HP Pavilion dv4 series, can run fine on FreeBSD or other opensource OS? Thanks!
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> 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 ] > -- Best regards, Mr.Hien E-mail: phanquoch...@gmail.com Website: www.mrhien.info _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"