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From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
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Subject: Speed ?
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I recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 on my laptop (Toshiba), and it runs 
significantly better on it than Gentoo Linux did.  I really notice the 
difference.  

About some laptop-specific hardware: my PCMCIA-card worked out of the box, and 
APM worked after recompiling my kernel.  So I think FreeBSD is very 
laptop-friendly (at least more than e.g. OpenBSD).  

GH