Which OS for notebook

[Chris Whitehouse]

On 10/04/10 17:55, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Monday 04 October 2010 12:11:30 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..
>
> there is no general answer.
>
> You must select an individual model first and see then if the hardware is supported.
>
> I use normally FreeBSD 7 or 8 but I installed Fedora on a single machine as there is no driver for the LAN available in FreeBSD.
>
> If I remember right, wireless was not a problem there.
>
> So, choose a model and ask then again.
>
> Ok, I have FreeBSD 7 running on an older Fujitsu Lifebook. 8.0 gave me problems with USB.
>
> Erich
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I would rather find a machine which will run FreeBSD if possible. If 
possible go to a laptop shop with a bootable USB stick (memstick.img) 
and try booting different machines. Collect dmesg and pciconf output to 
study at your leisure.

I have a HP nc6320 which runs 8.* fine except for the card reader and 
sleep/resume functions.

chris