Comments on: fit-pc, part II http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/01/09/fit-pc-part-ii/ Just another FreeBSD Developer's weblog Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:45:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: ivoras http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/01/09/fit-pc-part-ii/#comment-1376 ivoras Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:55:07 +0000 http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/01/09/fit-pc-part-ii/#comment-1376 On the bright side, there have been some significant developments in FreeBSD lately: there's a soon-to-be-committed crypto driver, the boot loader has been updated and improved (I think 7.1 will have the new loader, 8.x certainly), and the USB thing is a matter of a simple tweak, which I hope to get committed soon. Audio is a no-go. On the bright side, there have been some significant developments in FreeBSD lately: there’s a soon-to-be-committed crypto driver, the boot loader has been updated and improved (I think 7.1 will have the new loader, 8.x certainly), and the USB thing is a matter of a simple tweak, which I hope to get committed soon. Audio is a no-go.

]]> By: Ken Carroll http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/01/09/fit-pc-part-ii/#comment-1375 Ken Carroll Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:29:00 +0000 http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/01/09/fit-pc-part-ii/#comment-1375 Hi. Thanks for publishing this investigation. You have probably saved me a lot of heartache. I am running XP on the FitPC because like you I was astonished at how badly Ubuntu performed (swapping) but mainly because I couldn't get wireless working. XP works very well, with the exception of the audio drivers which I have not managed to get working without annoying ticks when adjusting the master volume. I'm not a MS advocate but XP works much better than Ubuntu out of the box. My aim was to install PC-BSD and run KDE via VNC giving me a (hopefully) low overhead graphical network interface for my apps (amarok basically). So, when I get my Homeplug AV kit I guess I'll now install the optimised Gentoo and load KDE manually. Pity. I wanted to make the move to BSD as my UNIX of choice. Hi. Thanks for publishing this investigation. You have probably saved me a lot of heartache. I am running XP on the FitPC because like you I was astonished at how badly Ubuntu performed (swapping) but mainly because I couldn’t get wireless working.
XP works very well, with the exception of the audio drivers which I have not managed to get working without annoying ticks when adjusting the master volume. I’m not a MS advocate but XP works much better than Ubuntu out of the box.
My aim was to install PC-BSD and run KDE via VNC giving me a (hopefully) low overhead graphical network interface for my apps (amarok basically). So, when I get my Homeplug AV kit I guess I’ll now install the optimised Gentoo and load KDE manually.
Pity. I wanted to make the move to BSD as my UNIX of choice.

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