Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 18:09:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd on a laptop Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0005091807350.2300-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005091646390.87705-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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I've been using the PAO dist on a Toshiba Satellite for a while now, and it works very well. From what I've heard, your mileage usually varies. The PAO site lists a bunch of supported hardware, and has patches up to FreeBSD 3.4. http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO Joe Clarke On Tue, 9 May 2000, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > Soon I will have the option to have my company purchase me a computer for > the office. I have a FreeBSD box and an iMac at home which allows me to > do all of the work that I do here. My only limitation is that I am not > mobile. > > I would like to have a laptop, but being connected to the internet and > the development server while at, say, the beach, is not realistic right > now. Instead I would like to have a laptop with a Unix/Linux system on it > which can run apache/perl so that I can do my development work no matter > if I am connected to the internet or not. > > Anyone know of how FreeBSD or any other BSD runs on a laptop? How does X > like a laptop? Any major or minor concerns? > > Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin > projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com > > Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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