Which OS for notebook

[Gonzalo Nemmi]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com> 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.

No, it´s not wrong .. just keep buying ThinkPads .. most devels use
them and hence .. they get more attention.

>
>>
>> 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.
>
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