On 2008-Jul-25 13:36:37 +0300, Aggelidis Nikos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>From my perspective freebsd should "advertise"(*) the laptops that
>work with it, out of the box, so that new users {like me} know what to
>buy;Who do you suggest is going to do this? Buying one of every type of laptop, installing (or working out how to install) FreeBSD and checking which bits of the laptop do/don't work with which version of FreeBSD is an expensive exercise in both time and effort. The best that exists at present is http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ - but it suffers from the problem that by the time someone has bought a laptop and checked it out, that model is obsolete. In my case, I bought my laptop because I knew someone who had the identical model. > and large corporations have a benefit for promoting OS >compatibility other than Windows(tm). The vendors don't seem interested in doing this - I suspect that they are pressured not to support anything other than Winbloze (you might notice that two very high profile Linux-only laptops have recently grown Winbloze variants). Successive generations of laptops have become less and less free-OS-friendly. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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