On Wednesday 09 July 2008 12:04:42 Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > I've been away from FreeBSD for a few years -- I briefly gave > 7.0-CURRENT a spin last year, on an old laptop, but didn't > stick with it. However, I'll likely be getting a new laptop soon > and I'm tired of linux (and especially tired of Ubuntu, which > thinks it's smarter than me.) > > So I'm seriously considering FreeBSD 7. On the plus side, I've > done quite a lot of C programming (though not system-level) > since I last used FreeBSD, so I can try some hackery if I need to. > On the minus side, I don't want to spend all my time fixing ports > or patching device drivers -- I'd rather have a system that just > works, and lets me focus on my work. Anyway, I have a few > questions: > > 1. My biggest peeve was the tendency to crash when pulling > out USB memory sticks (especially if they were mounted, > but sometimes even if they were unmounted). Kris Kennaway > told me in a private mail that this has been fixed in 8-CURRENT. > Is that so, and has it been MFC'd?
No idea, sorry. > 2. Can I run 32-bit linux binaries (like Adobe Reader) on a 64-bit > FreeBSD setup? Yes. > 3. How good is Wine on FreeBSD? Can I expect it to be almost > as good as Wine on Linux? There is some ongoing effort from pcbsd.org to improve wine support. AFAIK, it's pretty decent already. > 4. Is UFS/gjournal at least as reliable as, say, ext3? I don't > want long fsck's every time I shutdown uncleanly. If you are going to run amd64 and have 1gb+ of ram, zfs is your friend! But UFS+gjournal works really well, too. I doubt, however, that you will really need a journal on a Laptop with <500GB HDD. > 5. Do linux binaries that require ALSA (eg, flash plugin 9/10) > work? Flash is a PITA, but sound support is not the problem. > 6. Can I run Windows Vista (likely to be preinstalled -- no > choice) under Xen or qemu? AFAIK, we don't support Xen dom0 yet. qemu should work, but that's a question for somebody who knows their windows. > 7. How good is power management, in particular cpufreq > and ACPI suspend-to-RAM? (I suppose the answer depends > on the laptop model.) cpufreq is well-supported, though you might encounter problems with the newest CPU families. Everything else is a WIP and you shouldn't expect anything to work out of the box, sorry. -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
