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Subject: Re: Which one?
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On 12/7/06, Todd McNutt <todd@mcnutt.com> wrote:
> I am hoping to install BSD on an IBM ThinkPad 600X that
> I have.  It has not been running the newer Windows and I
> popped a CD version of Knoppix in it and it works fantastic.
>
> It got me thinking... I had used BSD in the past and I would
> like to find an OS that I can actually 'install' on the hard
> drive and just use the computer strictly as a BSD machine.
>  Do you have a version of BSD Free that will install and run
> on this machine?

Assuming that by thinkpad 600x you are talking about a
pentium3, any current distribution:
http://pcbsd.org/
http://www.desktopbsd.net/
http://www.freesbie.org/
http://www.freebsd.org/where.html
. . . should work fine.

YMMV

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