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#! rnews 1929 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!news.dkrz.de!dscomsa.desy.de!zow44!olavi From: olavi@zow.desy.de (Olaf Manczak) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Notebook Date: 26 May 1995 06:03:13 GMT Organization: Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, DESY Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3q3qv1$1oh@dscomsa.desy.de> References: <3q2tob$fdv@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: olavi@zow.desy.de NNTP-Posting-Host: zow44.desy.de >>> I have a older no-name brand 486DX33 notebook sitting in the corner. A >> Chances are pretty good. You can probably put linux on it, it runs on just >Uhh.. Did you bother to look at the newsgroup in which this was posted?? >Such blatant inferences that FreeBSD won't do the job are not appreciated >here, and Linux advocacy should stay in its own newsgroup where it belongs >(the Linux users wouldn't appreciate me evangelising FreeBSD in their >own groups, I am sure, which is why I don't!). ...ooops. My personal experience with getting FreeBSD to run on Compaq Contura Aero has been rather painful. While getting Linux to run was not more difficult than booting Messy-DOS FreeBSD required lots of hacking. I belive that this notebook is a bit `tricky' but the hardware world supported but Linux is much wider. I had no problem to boot Linux (booting FreeBSD required patched kernel because of PCMCIA floppy), I had no problem with my NE2000 compatible PCMCIA Ethernet card under Linux (it is pretty easy to patch ze0 driver in FreeBSD to get the thing working but you need to do it yourself...), and my serial port which works under Messy-DOS and Linux somehow can't pass sioprobe test under FreeBSD. I prefer BSD (FreeBSD) but in certain cases Linux is just an easier choice... -- Olaf Manczak