Which OS for notebook

[Phan Quoc Hien]

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 <perrin at 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 ]
>



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