Date: 31 Jan 1998 20:39:36 -0600 From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG, hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org Subject: Great job on laptops! Message-ID: <87hg6knj4n.fsf@garfield.complete.org>
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Hi everyone, I just wanted to let y'all know that I just installed FreeBSD on my new Thinkpad 310ED (P133MMX) laptop and it works GREAT. The sleep and suspend (hibernate) features work very well. I now need to figure how to set the timeouts for various devices, but I am sure it is in the documentation. Now here's the part you'll probably really like :-) I have, for the last year or two, been a developer for Debian GNU/Linux. I had originally switched to Linux because FreeBSD didn't run some of the software I needed, and Linux had (and Debian still has) a nicer package management system. Then along came my laptop earlier this week. Of course, the first thing I did was resize Win95 down from 1.6 gig to 400 meg and delete most of it :-) Then I went to install Linux on my laptop. It worked OK, but -- not very well. It took a lot of tweaking to make my PCMCIA Ethernet card go, and it never did let the hibernate stuff work. Basically, it just behaved like a desktop instead of fine-tuning itself for a laptop. Well, on a hunch, I got FreeBSD 2.2.5 and the PAO patches. Installed it, works great! So, just a note to thank y'all for making a great *nix distribution that runs well on a laptop, and keep up the good work! Regards, John Goerzen A FreeBSD and Linux fan -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming | Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for jgoerzen@complete.org | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org.
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