[SDBUG] BSD on Vostro laptop

[Raymundo M. Vega]

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 12:55 -0800, Peter Leftwich_Hostmaster wrote:
> Good day Raymundo,
> 
> There are two bsd live-cd's that I'm aware of, you might want to try
> them out (bootable CD-R's).  One is called "FreesBIE" and the other is
> slightly more commercial AFAIK, and is called "DragonFly" - good luck
> to you.
> 
> http://www.freesbie.org/
> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/mirrors/
> 
> -Peter
> 
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> 
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:45 PST, Matt Szubrycht
> <matts at bmihosting.com> wrote:
>         Raymundo,
>         
>         I think your best bet would be to ask on FreeBSD Mailing List
>         <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>
>         There is quite a lot of laptop/netbook compatibility and
>         workarounds info flying around on that list.
>         Cheers,
>         M./
>         
>         
>         On Nov 24, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Raymundo M. Vega wrote:
>         > I received my new laptop it is a Vostro 1510. It has XP
>         > now but I like to install BSD, tried FreeBSD but found
>         > that audio driver does not have audio input.
>         > Did several google searches and can not find any success
>         > stories with any of the BSD family, it seems like linux
>         > is my best bet. Do you guys know a good place to look?
>         > thanks
>         >
>         > raymundo
>         
> 

Good idea, i have used freesbie before...a long time ago i will
give it a shot. One question, why is dragon fly more commercial?

raymundo