Hi
Strangely enough PC-BSD gives you the option of using IE6 (there is a
package that installs IE6 running under WINE). There are a number of
options to get flash working. The main issue I have is that I have not
managed to get a single browser working on PC-BSD with both Flash 9 and
the Java run time engine.
Also PC-BSD is 32 bit and I have decided that I like a 64 bit OS.
Regards
Graeme Kiyoto-Ward
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Dec 18, 2007 9:52 PM, Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[not to start any 'distro-wars' but] Can anyone recommend any particular
distro as being particularly "laptop-friendly"? Ie, plug-n-play installation
on most laptops, etc?
PC-BSD, PCLinuxOS, Sabayon ( Professional ) In that order.
I have disks for the first two.
I was seriously thinking of going over to PC-BSD myself, because it
installs faultlessly on my ThinkPad lappie. Even the Fn keys worked! I
then discovered, much to to my disappointment and annoyance that
FreeBSD does not support a native version of Flash. There are kludgy
workarounds, But I didn't fancy them.
So if you are happy to be without the latest flash player, I'd
recommend PC-BSD, basically because the BSD doco leaves the Linux
pseudo-prose for dead.
PCLinuxOS is a Mand{rake,riva} fork and they seem to have got a huge
number of wrinkles ironed out.
Sabayon is a tarted up fork of Gentoo. I'd suggest the Pro version
because the d/l is half the size and the uses the stable version of
the packages. It's ~2Gbytes.
I haven't got a DVD for the Pro version but I have the others. Getting
the Fn keys to work properly might need a bit of 'guru meditation',
and scripting.
