Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:36:53 +0200 From: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: "fdu.xiaojf@gmail.com" <fdu.xiaojf@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ? Message-ID: <484FFF25.2070402@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <484FFE1C.9000704@FreeBSD.org> References: <484FCA1C.2080506@gmail.com> <20080611164612.T25711@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <484FFE1C.9000704@FreeBSD.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Pietro Cerutti wrote: | Wojciech Puchar wrote: | |> tired of a dual-boot system, so I want to just install FreeBSD or | |> another linux distribution(maybe ubuntu) on my notebook. | |> | |> My questions are: | |> 1) Can FreeBSD work well with my hardware? The display card, | |> CDRW/DVDRW, wireless, Ethernet and battery managment are the most | |> important. | | | | not sure about display card. but everything else should be OK. it's | | IBM/Lenovo :) | | nVIDIA drivers should support it: | | http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_100.14.09.html err, this is the most up to date :) http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_173.14.05.html | | | | |> 2) I have read the FreeBSD Handbook. According to Chapter 10: Linux | |> Binary Compatibility, it seems that FreeBSD lacks support of many | |> commercial softwares such as MATLAB, Oracle, Mathematica. Is the linux | |> binary compatibility stable enough for work ? | | Linux emulation is stable enough, I would say. I've used it to run | Mathematica 5 in the past (see handbook). | | _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" - -- Pietro Cerutti gahr@FreeBSD.org PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREKAAYFAkhP/yQACgkQwMJqmJVx947A5gCfQ79JCQT/Ms/NhUi5J7zsi/dd XKYAni1WDmassbnMg5H+Vj9xZPn87Dug =0Vzp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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