Re: FreeBSD on laptops
On 6/11/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/10/06, Sergio Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you looking for a first time BSD desktop (KDE) then try PC-BSD. and If you can't get that to run (PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD) give SuSE 10.1 a go. Good option I tried... fast easy... the version is still 5.X ... but is good... it is KDE based PC-BSD 1.1 is based on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. I think your thinking of the DesktopBSD project... PC-BSD also has PBI installers packages, as well as access to all of FreeBSD's ports and packages collection. http://www.pcbsd.org/index.php?id=41 http://www.pcbsd.org/?p=learnpbi -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This looks very interesting... Thank you all. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on laptops
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Derek Jander wrote: Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP Professional to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some firend told me about FreeBSD. I just tested it on a Virtual Machine and it looks great. My doubt now, is if it will be very difficult to make it work on my machine. I really need the internal modem, and of course the Wireless and stuff... And I can't be dealing with it for months Anyone who had already installed FBSD on that sistem (HP nx9030) could post any comment? There's an entry for the nx9030 on the FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=show_laptop_detaillaptop=571 They don't come out and say it, but that one guy is using a PC Card modem suggests the onboard one is an unsupported Winmodem. Most built-in notebook modems are. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on laptops
On Jun 10, 2006, at 1:45 AM, Derek Jander wrote: Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP Professional to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some firend told me about FreeBSD. I just tested it on a Virtual Machine and it looks great. My doubt now, is if it will be very difficult to make it work on my machine. I really need the internal modem, and of course the Wireless and stuff... And I can't be dealing with it for months Anyone who had already installed FBSD on that sistem (HP nx9030) could post any comment? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you! I'd look into the laptop mailing list to see if anyone else has asked this same question. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on laptops
Derek Jander wrote: Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP Professional to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some firend told me about FreeBSD. I just tested it on a Virtual Machine and it looks great. My doubt now, is if it will be very difficult to make it work on my machine. I really need the internal modem, and of course the Wireless and stuff... And I can't be dealing with it for months Anyone who had already installed FBSD on that sistem (HP nx9030) could post any comment? Any help will be appreciated. If you need help with a particular piece of hardware, better specify the chipset of that rather than the model of the laptop. There are two things for you to do: 1) check the hardware compatibility list for the version you plan to install, ie: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html 2) Try one of the available live cd's. Unfortunately they are usually based on one of the older releases, but if it works then you can be quite certain that it will also work with the latest release. Hope that helps, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: FreeBSD on laptops
Hello... I have here running on an HP pavilion zv6000 with all enabled... gnome2.14 + flash7 + wireless + kernel 6.1 + java. + multimedia(all types and plugins: rmv, avi, asf) + dvdRW..., openoffice 2.0.2 java 1.4, 1.5, eclipse, jdk, monodevelop the broadcom wireless built from the ndis windows driver... All running on FreeBSD Is amazing... in fact, we are starting do ship notebooks with FreeBSD in 1-2 months... the primary users will be high executives, decision chain persons, that will operate Kontact + evolution linked to a Open-Xchange servers... Their needed for secure machines, with an secure operating system, that is imune to virus , spywares, with a vpn (using ppp over ip) that in case of lost, robbery, can be used to track down the machine or simply wipe out the operating system and do not expose the information inside... a secret key on the loader, prevents the machine from being used in single user, so one machine can be safetly be used with more than one person in the company... Besides, each notebook (a turion amd64...) can be used as a FreeBSD diskless server, and when activated, almost every machine on an lan that connects with it, can be used with as a diskless client using PXE boot (available on almost every PC now... including the notebook...). I can send some screen shots if you are interested... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on laptops
Derek Jander wrote: Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP Professional to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some firend told me about FreeBSD. I just tested it on a Virtual Machine and it looks great. My doubt now, is if it will be very difficult to make it work on my machine. I really need the internal modem, and of course the Wireless and stuff... And I can't be dealing with it for months Anyone who had already installed FBSD on that sistem (HP nx9030) could post any comment? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you! You could also stay on virtual machines. If you deal with different flavors of Linux, this will allow you to experiment and a mistake will not render you without laptop. Also until you make your laptop run FreeBSD, you might have some downtime, if you have not done it. Just some thoughts. Iv. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on laptops
On 6/10/06, Derek Jander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP Professional to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some firend told me about FreeBSD. I just tested it on a Virtual Machine and it looks great. My doubt now, is if it will be very difficult to make it work on my machine. I really need the internal modem, and of course the Wireless and stuff... And I can't be dealing with it for months Anyone who had already installed FBSD on that sistem (HP nx9030) could post any comment? Any help will be appreciated. If you looking for a first time BSD desktop (KDE) then try PC-BSD. and If you can't get that to run (PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD) give SuSE 10.1 a go. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on laptops
If you looking for a first time BSD desktop (KDE) then try PC-BSD. and If you can't get that to run (PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD) give SuSE 10.1 a go. Good option I tried... fast easy... the version is still 5.X ... but is good... it is KDE based On the HP series, due to a hardware problem in the keyboard, it locks just ast you load the kernel... solution: Boot with a patched keyboard kernel (the one that does not test the hardware...) google points.. Again I recomend the 6.1 kernel... and gnome.. 2.14 or 2.15 is ligher than kde, and easy for the end user 2.15 with HAL implementation is amazing We notice here that users (those who just want to use the computer) does better with gnome (less options, less thing to confitgure) They just want to read email, use office, som multemedia... internet... and a groupware package linked to the evolution ... in my case, the open-xchange software Lenzi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on laptops
On 6/10/06, Sergio Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you looking for a first time BSD desktop (KDE) then try PC-BSD. and If you can't get that to run (PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD) give SuSE 10.1 a go. Good option I tried... fast easy... the version is still 5.X ... but is good... it is KDE based PC-BSD 1.1 is based on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. I think your thinking of the DesktopBSD project... PC-BSD also has PBI installers packages, as well as access to all of FreeBSD's ports and packages collection. http://www.pcbsd.org/index.php?id=41 http://www.pcbsd.org/?p=learnpbi -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
