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Date:      Sat, 2 Sep 2000 22:48:57 -0700
From:      "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        David Kanter <david.kanter@mindspring.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Laptops
Message-ID:  <20000902224856.W62475@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000902233539.00a74910@pop.mindspring.com>; from david.kanter@mindspring.com on Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 11:36:53PM -0500
References:  <20000902005017.A39234@envy.geekhouse.net> <39B0A1F1.F73E661A@donet.com> <20000902005017.A39234@envy.geekhouse.net> <20000903094638.C66079@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.1.2.20000902233539.00a74910@pop.mindspring.com>

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On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 11:36:53PM -0500, David Kanter wrote:
> At 09:46 AM 9/3/00 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >On Saturday,  2 September 2000 at  0:50:18 -0700, Jim Mock wrote:
> > >> Would be interested in trying FreeBSD. . . will probably get a desktop
> > >> for Windows stuff and use the laptop as the "experimental" machine. . .
> > >> any suggestions for web sites with good documentation on laptop
> > >> installs???
> 
> My understanding is that some people opt for OpenBSD for the laptop since 
> it has more pccard support.

I have _never_ heard that. OpenBSD does not focus almost exclusively
on the i386 architecture like FreeBSD does. I'd be surprised if it had
anything FreeBSD didn't. Here is OpenBSD's info on notebooks,

  http://www.openbsd.org/i386-laptop.html

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.com


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