Recommended laptop for FreeBSD 10.2 Xfce workstation?

[Andrew Gould]

I have an old Toshiba Portege R705-P25 that works out of the box with
FreeBSD 10.1.

Wifi, ethernet, usb ports, sound, and hdmi ports work, although I have to
set the volume up with mixer at boot-up.

I have the following software working:
Xorg
Slim
Mate
XFCE
LXDE
Firefox
Freerdp
VirtualBox with Windows 7 Professional 32bit
AbiWord
Gnumeric
Filezilla
7zip
Xchat
VLC

I have not tried to install any of the large office suites or large
multimedia players (Banshee, Amarok, Rythmbox, etc)

When I have a computer with wifi compatibility issues, I prefer to use the
universal wifi adapters that attach to ethernet ports rather than usb ports.

Best of luck,

Andrew


On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:12 PM, David Christensen <
dpchrist at holgerdanske.com> wrote:

> freebsd-questions:
>
> Thank you for the replies so far.  :-)
>
>
> Is there such a thing as a "reference laptop" that FreeBSD is developed
> and validated against?
>
>
> Failing that, I'm going to lower the bar and ask if there are *any*
> laptops that meet my basic needs OOTB:
>
>     I'm looking for a new or used laptop that is known to work
>     correctly with FreeBSD 10.2, Xfce, Firefox, Thunderbird, (whatever
>     free) Office, etc., plus encryption and virtualization.
>
>
> David
>
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