From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jan 31 22:16:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA24136 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 22:16:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from onyx.southwind.net (root@onyx.southwind.net [206.53.103.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23979; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 22:14:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgoerzen@complete.org) Received: (from Ucomplet@localhost) by onyx.southwind.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id AAA04296; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 00:05:09 -0600 (CST) Received: (from jgoerzen@localhost) by garfield.complete.org (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) id UAA27353; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 20:39:38 -0600 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG, hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org Subject: Great job on laptops! Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: John Goerzen Date: 31 Jan 1998 20:39:36 -0600 Message-ID: <87hg6knj4n.fsf@garfield.complete.org> Lines: 34 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.52/XEmacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" 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.