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This is a great idea! I think it would be a waste of time for FreeBSD to take the entire desktop market on -- Linux has been fighting that battle for years -- b

This is a great idea! I think it would be a waste of time for FreeBSD to take the entire desktop market on -- Linux has been fighting that battle for years -- but it would be awesome if Dell/HP/Lenovo came out with a PC-BSD-based laptop with official support. (For those not familiar with FreeBSD, PC-BSD is the "Desktop" edition of FreeBSD.) Another feature I'd really like to see the FreeBSD Foundation focus on this year is full support for Xen/KVM, with the specific goal of getting FreeBSD to be a "first-class" citizen on EC2. Interestingly, some folks from Microsoft are working on Hyper-V drivers so perhaps we'll see FreeBSD on Azure in the future.

ineedtosleep 13y ago
On that note, what are the best laptops/netbooks out there for *BSD in terms of hardware support? I was thinking of doing what the grandparent comment was suggesting, but had trouble finding a list of (near) 100% supported machines.
- cturner 13y ago
  When I looked at this six months ago the answer was thinkpads. But there is still oddness. I got a X1 Carbon which is a fantastic system once you get rid of the awful Windows setup it ships with but I ran out of time to mess around getting FreeBSD right and moved to ubuntu which is adequate.
cturner 13y ago
Dell/HP/Lenovo won't do that - the most they're likely to do is half-assed support for Linux. That's why it would be neat if FreeBSD to get themselves working solidly on a single platform, because fans would have a reliable option.
- 65a 13y ago
  Recent thinkpads recognize FreeBSD as an OS, and then promptly have tons of issues with poorly designed ACPI.