Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-May-27 09:47:24 +0200, Stephan Lichtenauer wrote: >>> Acer Aspire ONE. I haven't got comments from these lists about that >> I have the SSD version and everything except the webcam and suspend/ >> resume works out of the box. > >What FreeBSD version are you using? FreeBSD 8-current. --

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/23 Wojciech Puchar : >> >> I'm about to buy a netbook, which: >> - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) >> - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) >> - has a normal HDD not an SSD > > point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway in > order of

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Stephan Lichtenauer
Peter, Am 26.05.2009 um 23:13 schrieb Peter Jeremy: On 2009-May-24 15:33:43 +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Acer Aspire ONE. I haven't got comments from these lists about that model in particular but I googled a bit and it seems mostly everything works with it. I have the SSD version and e

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-May-24 15:33:43 +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: >Acer Aspire ONE. I haven't got comments from these lists about that >model in particular but I googled a bit and it seems mostly everything >works with it. I have the SSD version and everything except the webcam and suspend/ resume works out

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
1024x600 9" display and an attached USB Huawei E220 dongel for UMTS. I have installed 8-CURRENT and all works as it should, only the inbuild cam is not supported, but I don't neet this at the moment (maybe later when Skype for FreeBSD can do video as well). Matthias, What kind of battery life d

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-25 Thread parv
in message <20090524135229.ga3...@current.sisis.de>, wrote Matthias Apitz thusly... > > > Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko escribió: > > >I did not run FreeBSD on it, so I apologize for slight OT, but > > >my wife's Samsung NC10 (2.8 lbs, 10.2" screen, 160GB 5400RPM > > >HDD) is pushing 6 hours of the b

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-25 Thread parv
in message <20090524161901.gb3...@current.sisis.de>, wrote Matthias Apitz thusly... > > > On Sun, 24 May 2009 15:52:29 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > I have a real netbook, an EeePC 900 with 20 GByte SSD, Wifi, > > > 1024x600 9" display and an attached USB Huawei E220 dongel for > > > UMTS. I

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Noland
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 20:09 +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Koichiro IWAO escribió: > > The integrated video chip Intel GMA 500 is not a original Intel product. > > So X11 does not work with Intel driver and the driver is still > > unavailable. VESA is the only available driver. Does anyone have

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-24 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Koichiro IWAO escribió: The integrated video chip Intel GMA 500 is not a original Intel product. So X11 does not work with Intel driver and the driver is still unavailable. VESA is the only available driver. If you want use X11, do not forget to choose Atom N series. Uh, thanks a lot, I almos

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-24 Thread Koichiro IWAO
Hi. Gabor Kovesdan : Hello, I'm about to buy a netbook, which: - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) - has a normal HDD not an SSD I don't know about that you are going to buy, but I have Dell Inspiron mini 12. One o

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, May 24, 2009 a las 04:56:11PM +0200, Polytropon escribió: > On Sun, 24 May 2009 15:52:29 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > I have a real netbook, an EeePC 900 with 20 GByte SSD, Wifi, 1024x600 9" > > display and an attached USB Huawei E220 dongel for UMTS. I have > > installed 8-CUR

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 24 May 2009 15:52:29 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > I have a real netbook, an EeePC 900 with 20 GByte SSD, Wifi, 1024x600 9" > display and an attached USB Huawei E220 dongel for UMTS. I have > installed 8-CURRENT and all works as it should, only the inbuild cam is > not supported, but I do

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, May 24, 2009 a las 03:43:53PM +0200, Gabor Kovesdan escribió: > Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko escribió: > >I did not run FreeBSD on it, so I apologize for slight OT, but my wife's > >Samsung NC10 (2.8 lbs, 10.2" screen, 160GB 5400RPM HDD) is pushing 6 > >hours of the battery life with

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-24 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko escribió: I did not run FreeBSD on it, so I apologize for slight OT, but my wife's Samsung NC10 (2.8 lbs, 10.2" screen, 160GB 5400RPM HDD) is pushing 6 hours of the battery life with the wireless on and memory upgraded to 2GB. This is under Windows XP HOME ULCPC though

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-24 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Wojciech Puchar escribió: I'm about to buy a netbook, which: - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) - has a normal HDD not an SSD point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway in order of few watts, compa

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-23 Thread cpghost
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:40:35PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > I respectfully disagree. As much as I hate Apple as a company, I > > currently have a MacBook Pro that gets over 4 hours of battery > > life and has a 200+gig HDD in it. > > i wrote "somehow incompatible" :) > > your macbook pro

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-23 Thread Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 13:31 -0400, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > -- > From: "Wojciech Puchar" > Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:09 PM > To: "Gabor Kovesdan" > Cc: ; > Subject: Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD > &g

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway in order of few watts, compared to CPUs taking 20-50W, excluding those really "mobile". so >4 hours on battery&HDD seems possible. I respectfully disagree. As much as I hate Apple as a company, I currently have a MacBook

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-23 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
-- From: "Wojciech Puchar" Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:09 PM To: "Gabor Kovesdan" Cc: ; Subject: Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD I'm about to buy a netbook, which: - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially import

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm about to buy a netbook, which: - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) - has a normal HDD not an SSD point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway in order of few watts, compared to CPUs taking 20-50W,

netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-23 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Hello, I'm about to buy a netbook, which: - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) - has a normal HDD not an SSD I was told that the new 6 cell Acer Aspire ONEs aren't bad. Could you share your experiences about the following model