Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 10:34:00 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Lesly Weyts <weytslesly@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Centrino Message-ID: <20030514173400.GA1307@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <LC2-LFD60HAaaz7EjQx000000af@hotmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:07:31PM +0200, Lesly Weyts wrote: > Hi, > > I wanna buy a new laptop with a Pentium M (the newest processor from Intel > especially for mobile computers) and install freeBSD on it with KDE. Is > that possible ... I've heard that the architecture of the new CPU is > different and that Unix/Linux not run on those processors. Is that true or > ... and if it is true ... will there soon be support for the > centrino-platform. I hope it because I need mobile computers and I love the > fact that I can work longer with a Pentium M. The Pentium M is entierly compatable with other modern x86 processors. A friend of mine works for a company that is building embedded boards with it that run unmodified x86 Linux. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+wn4HXY6L6fI4GtQRAuMCAJ4melfjkRzD2vteU9eAgbCqjgLKbgCggoC8 /nGoZyEquT5xPTOzQSdyYOw= =eWfs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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