Which OS for notebook

[Gonzalo Nemmi]

El 05/10/2010 02:29 p.m., Phan Quoc Hien escribió:
> Hello. I have same question here.
> My laptop is HP Pavilion dv4 series,  can run fine on FreeBSD or other
> opensource OS?
> Thanks!

Please, take a look at the following thread before going any further:
"HP Envy 14 laptop damaged by FreeBSD 8.1 install"
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=17683

> 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:
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>>> Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ?
>>> Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc..
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>> 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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