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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2072 comp.os.386bsd.questions:9323 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!news.chalmers.se!nyheter.chalmers.se!augustss From: augustss@cs.chalmers.se (Lennart Augustsson) Subject: Re: NetBSD on a laptop? In-Reply-To: baudoin@ensta.fr's message of 9 Mar 1994 14:05:36 GMT Message-ID: <AUGUSTSS.94Mar15191640@statler.cs.chalmers.se> Sender: news@news.chalmers.se Nntp-Posting-Host: statler.cs.chalmers.se Organization: Dept. of CS, Chalmers, Sweden References: <2lkl3g$e8v@homea.ensta.fr> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 18:16:43 GMT Lines: 29 In article <2lkl3g$e8v@homea.ensta.fr> baudoin@ensta.fr (Marc Baudoin) writes: > Does anybody have an experience with NetBSD + XFree on a laptop? Yes. I'm running that on my no-name laptop (33Mhz 486DX, 16M memory, 340M disk). It runs great, except that I use the generic VGA16 server which is pretty slow. Try to ge a lap top with one of the supported SVGA chipsets, that help a lot (a friend of mine has that). Another thing to try to get are 16550 uarts so you get good serial speeds without loosing characters (I have a very ugly fix for the FIFO-less uarts). I've written a device driver for a no-name pocket LAN adapter that plugs into the printer port. I get about 100kbyte/s, not great, but hey, it's a printer port. :-) I also have a (so far rudimentary) device driver for the Port*able Sound box (something like a SoundBlaster that plugs into the printer port). All in all, I can greatly recommend NetBSD+XFree 2.0 for use on your laptop. Just make sure it boots before you buy one! -- Lennart -- -- Lennart Augustsson [This signature is intentionally left blank.]