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From: albert@tricky.tnt.es.ele.tue.nl (Albert Mietus)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD on laptop ??
Date: 23 May 1994 11:35:21 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
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Message-ID: <ALBERT.94May23133521@tricky.tnt.es.ele.tue.nl>
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I have some simple questions:
1) Is 't possible to run FreeBSD on (PC) laptops?
2) Can I run XFree on it?
As far as I know, laptops aren't 100% compatable to desktops-PC's:
Memory is different (PCM...??.. bus), as is the mouce-trackeball.
3) How about controlling the battery?
Is this needed,
4) Does it work (handy)?
I have to traval a lot, and I would like to do some work then.
Mostly programming ("coding", writing doc's, etc ) (so I need gnu-
emacs) and reading news etc.
Has anybody done this already? can you give me some advice?
Thanks --GAM