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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Will it run on a portable?
Date: 20 Nov 1995 02:45:31 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <48kprd$4jg@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>, Carl Harris <ceharris@vt.edu> wrote:
:Eric McCaughrin (meric@orac.mti.sgi.com) wrote:
:: I've got my eyes on a portable computer (Pentium-based). Has anyone
:: had success installing one of the IBM-compatible UNIXes on a
:: portable (Linux,netBSD,BSDI,freeBSD,etc)? The newest portables
:: seem to be based on the PCMCIA bus and from what I've read in
:: the web pages, this bus is not supported. I'm also worried
:: about the internal CD-ROM drives portables come with.
:
:Let me preface this by saying that I'm something of a BSD fanatic.
:I've got NetBSD running on my VAXstation II/GPX and Macinsloth II, and
:I've got FreeBSD running about 30 PCs in one of the labs I administer.
:But for a laptop with PCMCIA, I highly recommend Linux (at least for now).
:
:My department purchased a few IBM ThinkPads with PCMCIA ethernet cards.
:We tried both NetBSD and FreeBSD, but were really disappointed that we
:couldn't get everything working under either operating system.
laptop (read PCMCIA) support is getiing more an more complete
in the -current version of FreeBSD. under the careful guidance
of phk@freebsd.org.
he was pulling his enet and modem cards in and out doing hot-swapping
last I heard..
:
:With FreeBSD we had to a heck of time just getting the OS installed
:(the default console driver doesn't support laptop keyboards). Then,
:we couldn't get past the same keyboard problem with X (despite quite a
:bit of hacking at the pcvt driver and XFree312).
I believe this has been cleaned up (But not sure...(I don't have one))
:Of course, FreeBSD and NetBSD will likely catch up in the near future
:(and when they do, we'll want to try them again), but at least for now,
:Linux seems like the better choice.
I can't fault your logic :)
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