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From: AJ Musgrove <musgrove@xavier.varmm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD (current) good for Laptops?
Date: 20 Nov 1996 16:21:08 GMT
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Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> wrote:
: Hello,

: I just bought a Laptop and want to put Unix on it.

: I heard some people say that Linux has better support for Laptop
: specific things (what support exactly is needed? PCMCIA? Power saving
: mode?)

: Is this really true? I would really prefer FreeBSD but wonder what
: problems/deficiencies I might encounter.

Let me add in my $0.02 here because I'm wonderin the same thing.

I have a IBM ThinkPad 486/DX 50mhz, 8M RAM, 170M hard disk, and an Active
Matrix monitor. Yes, I realize the HD is small, but I was thinking of a
minimum installation.

Does this sound possible? Also, it would be nice to have the base
development tools and the X package, but I really think i might be pushing
the limits there. Any thoughts?

-- 
AJ Musgrove

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