Which OS for notebook

[Michael Ruhe]

  Hi guys,

normally I am just listening to what is communicated related to the 
FreeBSD OS.

But here I feel that I can contribute something for "Which OS for notebook".

I really do share the opinion that a "good" Linux might be more suitable 
for notebooks for "Newbees", on the other hand I am using Freebsd for 
day to day business also on a Thinkpad T42. I was able to successfully 
install and get FreeBSD running on numerous different brands of notebooks.

Sure, you need time to compile and knowledge how to get things up and 
running. But don't underestimate what you gain doing things yourself.
To install for example Ubuntu.... its running out of the box. FreeBSD 
expects you to have a sound knowledge of OS's.

At this stage I would like to thank all people contributing to FreeBSD 
for the good documentation and the profound knowledge.

Only a few things are missing like "skype" but almost all other 
applications are running fine. I also tested PC-BSD.... it's working 
nice, but for fine tuning and learning pure FreeBSD will be my favourite.

By the way I made my own documentation what suits best. Feel free to ask 
and I will be happy to provide you with this document.

Hope this helps

Regards
Michael





On 10/06/10 19:14, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:50:42AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Mark Blackman<mark at exonetric.com>  wrote:
>>> There's also the whole train of thought that says FreeBSD isn't really
>>> aimed at the desktop/laptop/notebook use model and any benefit in that arena
>>> is entirely coincidental.
>>
>> That tends to be my perspective.  Linux tends to be more useful on
>> laptops and desktops, where up-to-the-minute hardware support is
>> needed.  For servers, where stability is important, I tend to prefer
>> BSD, all other things being equal.
>
> Weird.  I guess maybe my excellent experience of using FreeBSD on my
> ThinkPad is "wrong", and so is my experience of various Linux
> distributions having more maintenance issues than FreeBSD on similar
> hardware, and I should stop.
>
>
>>
>> Besides the mindshare issue that's been mentioned, part of the problem
>> here is the balkanized nature of open source licenses, too.  Linux
>> driver code is useless to FreeBSD developers because the GPL isn't
>> compatible with the BSD license.
>
> I don't think that's the case.  Maybe such drivers cannot be integrated
> directly with the base system without licensing issues, but it can
> certainly be distributed and installed when appropriate.  It is, in fact,
> for this reason of compatibility that FreeBSD has had ZFS support where
> Linux-based systems have not.
>