neubejiita

I have just completed the set up of FreeBSD 8.2 on my Asus A3H laptop and it is working better than Linux! When I am playing an MP3 with xmms, I can plug in earphones and still hear the music, with Ubuntu and every other distribution I have tried even Linux Mint 10, it would mute the sound and nothing would bring the music back except unplugging the headphones. And the xf86-video-intel driver works with the graphics hardware included with this laptop as well, I am running fluxbox and everything is good.

But the only reason I wanted to install this is that I only have 768MiB of RAM and Linux Mint 10 with Gnome is too bloated and slow for the poor laptop and had to go. I just had to build Xorg and friends from source with ports and now I have a properly performing laptop again, without having to install Windows XP. Linux Mint and Ubuntu are getting too bloated, OpenSuse 11.3 is not too bad though, I did a in place upgrade with

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and after downloading and installing 1.89 GiB of data I upgraded my desktop system without having to use the Suse DVD. Sort of like

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on Ubuntu after changing the repositories to the newer release.

But FreeBSD deserves to be used as it is a worthy contender to the desktop OS throne, it just needs more work to support the Intel i3's integrated graphics capability. But all good so far on the laptop front.