From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 1 6: 2: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hse-toronto-ppp119263.sympatico.ca (HSE-Toronto-ppp86755.sympatico.ca [216.209.24.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D40D37B4CF for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 06:02:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 46032 invoked by uid 0); 1 Nov 2000 14:05:49 -0000 Received: from nat.inquent.com (216.6.14.45) by hse-toronto-ppp86755.sympatico.ca with SMTP; 1 Nov 2000 14:05:49 -0000 Received: from inquent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nat.inquent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E31261 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:01:28 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A002238.D4B66FEA@inquent.com> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 09:01:28 -0500 From: Rod Taylor Organization: InQuent X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Laptop Considerations Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm looking very hard at the IBM X-Series laptop primarily for a portable windows workstation however periodically I'll need to use unix of somekind on it. Would FreeBSD be functional on 266237U? I need the basics (Network, X, database, text editors and a compiler) though it would be nice to have standby support and the extra power management features as well. Thanks. I've noticed laptop support has improved a lot since I last tried (2.2.3 or so...). Main considerations in laptop are lots of ram (256mb), battery life must be > 3 hours and weight should be less than 4lbs if anyone knows of a better supported alternative. -- Rod Taylor -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message