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I have been running FreeBSD on laptops since 2004. Right now the major problem you'll run into is that almost every system out there has Haswell video, and Fre
by cperciva 12y ago
I have been running FreeBSD on laptops since 2004. Right now the major problem you'll run into is that almost every system out there has Haswell video, and FreeBSD doesn't have a working driver for that yet.
That said, there have been a lot of commits recently preparing the tree for importing a version of the linux Haswell driver, so I'm optimistic that this will be fixed soon. In the mean time, unless your need for a new laptop is urgent, I'd suggest waiting.
- NhanH 12y agoOut of curiosity, which laptop are you using right now?
- cperciva 12y agoI'm on a Latitude E5420 right now, but I bought an E7440 last year which I've been using for testing and plan on switching over to as soon as Haswell support is available.
- tiffanyh 12y ago>> "there have been a lot of commits recently preparing the tree for importing a version of the linux Haswell driver" Not meaning to start a license flame war, but how does this work? How does FreeBSD import something that's presumably GPL'ed?
- detaro 12y agoBy having the authors license the relevant bits under BSD as well.
- feld 12y agoThe Intel graphics driver code in Linux uses a license which is BSD compatible. Look at all the files here to see the license in the header: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/ https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/gpu/dr...