Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-11 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Derek Jander wrote: Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP Professional to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some firend told me about FreeBSD. I jus

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-11 Thread Derek Jander
On 6/11/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/10/06, Sergio Lenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you looking for a first time BSD desktop (KDE) then try PC-BSD. and > > If you can't get that to run (PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD) give SuSE > > 10.1 a go. > > > > > > Good optio

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/10/06, Sergio Lenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you looking for a first time BSD desktop (KDE) then try PC-BSD. and > If you can't get that to run (PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD) give SuSE > 10.1 a go. > > Good option I tried... fast easy... the version is still 5.X ... but is good... i

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-10 Thread Sergio Lenzi
> If you looking for a first time BSD desktop (KDE) then try PC-BSD. and > If you can't get that to run (PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD) give SuSE > 10.1 a go. > > Good option I tried... fast easy... the version is still 5.X ... but is good... it is KDE based On the HP series, due to a

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/10/06, Derek Jander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP Professional to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some firend told me about Free

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Derek Jander wrote: Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP Professional to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some firend told me about FreeBSD. I just tested it on a Vi

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-10 Thread Sergio Lenzi
Hello... I have here running on an HP pavilion zv6000 with all enabled... gnome2.14 + flash7 + wireless + kernel 6.1 + java. + multimedia(all types and plugins: rmv, avi, asf) + dvdRW..., openoffice 2.0.2 java 1.4, 1.5, eclipse, jdk, monodevelop the broadcom wireless built from the ndis wi

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-10 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Derek Jander wrote: > Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP > Professional > to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have > some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some > firend > told me about FreeBSD. I just tested it

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jun 10, 2006, at 1:45 AM, Derek Jander wrote: Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP Professional to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some firend told me about F

FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-10 Thread Derek Jander
Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP Professional to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some firend told me about FreeBSD. I just tested it on a Virtual Machine and it loo