I'm getting a surplus Dell Latitude from work. Was going to load Ubuntu but FreeBSD 8 plus KDE 4.3.0 (or later) looks like a fairly crisp choice for me. Anybody have any experience with this combination?
It's what I run at work, runs well but have to know what you intend on using it for. Also IME KDE 4 is easier to install and has less quirks than on linux.
Virtualbox runs vista quite well for me so it takes care of that problem to.
If you run 64 bit, use the nouveau driver, it's far better than nv.
I'm getting a surplus Dell Latitude from work. Was going to load Ubuntu but FreeBSD 8 plus KDE 4.3.0 (or later) looks like a fairly crisp choice for me. Anybody have any experience with this combination?
Not with that particular make and model, but a while back I've been running FreeBSD (6.2 and 7) on my laptop for some months.
Sadly, I've had to give up on it because it didn't provide decent ACPI (suspend/resume) support and hardware graphics acceleration.
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I'm getting a surplus Dell Latitude from work. Was going to load Ubuntu but FreeBSD 8 plus KDE 4.3.0 (or later) looks like a fairly crisp choice for me. Anybody have any experience with this combination?
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It's what I run at work, runs well but have to know what you intend on using it for. Also IME KDE 4 is easier to install and has less quirks than on linux.
Virtualbox runs vista quite well for me so it takes care of that problem to.
If you run 64 bit, use the nouveau driver, it's far better than nv.
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Not with that particular make and model, but a while back I've been running FreeBSD (6.2 and 7) on my laptop for some months.
Sadly, I've had to give up on it because it didn't provide decent ACPI (suspend/resume) support and hardware graphics acceleration.