Quote Originally Posted by shakeshuck View Post
gore,

I used FreeBSD on a laptop for a couple of years during the 4.x phase, but when it all went horribly wrong when the 5.x series came out, I was somewhat put off. I tried again recently with a different laptop with the 7.xs, and PC-BSD, and both crashed horribly during the installation causing file system destruction.

I'm wary to say the least...
Laptops back in 4.0 must have been terrible heh. Even now they're still working on making them good for BSD. I don't think I've had BSD on my Laptop because a lot of hardware isn't going to work right. The last time I installed, no working in a GUI because it just wouldn't work.

I now have the new 8.0 but haven't installed yet because I just haven't felt like screwing around with it, but from what I hear it works good. I haven't had any issues running it on a Desktop though.

I think you might want to try it on a Desktop system with real hardware, and not the usual on board integrated bastardizations they use in laptops. Unless you have already...

I didn't really have much hardware before. Right now I have a Celeron 433 MHz machine, with 192 MBs of RAM, and it's running Slackware 13.0 and it from time to time is used for BSD too. I generally use SlackBSD for that machine's host because I've dual booted FreeBSD and Slackware on it so many times I know exactly what it is.

Have you used any of these on something not like a Laptop?