From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 8 16:03:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA01479 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 16:03:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from seidata.com (seidata.com [206.160.242.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA01464; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 16:03:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@seidata.com) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by seidata.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA09970; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 19:03:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 19:03:15 -0500 (EST) From: Mike To: kozmo killah cc: mobile@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd works on laptops? In-Reply-To: <19971208221551.10168.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, kozmo killah wrote: > does the freebsd works on laptop pc? Guess that'd depend on the laptop... ;) > i try the linux on thinkpad 701 and it blew up into > much fire and smoke which maked big fire in room. Ouch... sounds like bad luck. I have both the latest Slakware and Red Hat distributions running on an IBM Thinkpad 755 here with no problems... they even recognized all my PCMCIA devices on startup. > i have now the thinkpad 560 and will the freebsd > works much better and no break laptop? Some would argue that FreeBSD always works better than Linux. ;) > is the freebsd very much guarantee to not blow up? Surely you know by now that there's no guarantees in life. --- Mike Hoskins mike@seidata.com SEI Data Network Services, Inc. http://www.adept.org/apropos