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http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=s10e&q=b As for NetBSD, the obvious sources to search are the netbsd-users@ & port-i386 mailing lists. Two threads which stood out (to me...) were the following: http://marc.info/?l=netbsd-users&m=123790697906524&w=2 http://marc.info/?t=124671588900003&r=1&w=2 Close study of these threads indicate that NetBSD's support of the S10e is probably not as far as OpenBSD's. Having the expectation that one or both will support any onboard wireless card may currently be unrealistic. As for asking for a comparison of OpenBSD's & NetBSD's support of ACPI, you are making the assumption that someone actually exists who has knowledge of both implementations. I am not aware of any such person on this forum site, & in all honesty, I doubt there is such a person. What I do know is that NetBSD has been doing a lot of radical development between 3.x, 4.x, & 5.x thus far, and I suspect it will take some time for their code base to stabilize. OpenBSD's development is a bit more consistent, so I expect that this translates to stability in one way or another, but I will also state that I too focus most on OpenBSD, so I have my own bias. The most tangible (& impartial...) thing you can do is install both & test for yourself, as you know your needs & usage patterns better than anyone else. Decide to test each platform for an arbitrary amount of time (eg. two weeks each...), & decide afterwards given your own experience. If you are more familiar with OpenBSD, you already have some bias. So it comes down to how much time do you want to spend searching further in the various mailing lists & testing for yourself. |
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Thank you for your reply.
I obviously did some extended research and I only wanted to get some ideas from an outside world, because I'm aware that I am not the only *BSD user and I can just miss out something really important. Also, I am aware of the bwi0 being unsupported in this model. I know that neither OpenBSD nor NetBSD supports it, but that wasn't my question. I guess I'll just have to make some HW testing so I can eventually choose the best solution. Thanks for the info, marc |
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Sounds to me that you wanted to start some kind of a flame war. NetBSD project has made some tremendous progress recently and looks completely invigorated. Despite the fact that I am an OpenBSD user, I am very excited about those changes as they bring diversity to BSD ecosystem. However those changes have little impact for a casual desktop/notebook user. The only obvious advantage of NetBSD over OpenBSD for a casual desktop computer user that I can think of is Linux compatibility layer including Linux comp on amd64. I am not sure if you could install the latest Maple or MatLab but you could reasonable expect Flash 10 just to work. Skype is iffy at least according to mailing lists. I do not know if they have some kind of ALSA emulation for their implementation of OSS (which is crappy and is completely rewritten for 6.0) which can be very useful for multimedia. In that case they would have more multimedia software ported to NetBSD. On the final note bigmem on OpenBSD is not ready yet and SMP support is really behind comparing to NetBSD. If you have 4GB of RAM and you really want to take advantage of those multiple cores in certain applications NetBSD seems like a logical choice. Last edited by Oko; 20th July 2009 at 03:12 PM. |
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And the thing is, that I don't really need suspend/hibernation. I find those functions obsolete. Now, I completely don't understand what you're talking about. Well, maybe there's some sort of misinterpretation involved. I already said about the things that made me ask those questions. Quote:
Thank you for your help and time Regards, marc |
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