Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:32:28 +0200 From: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: "fdu.xiaojf@gmail.com" <fdu.xiaojf@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ? Message-ID: <484FFE1C.9000704@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080611164612.T25711@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <484FCA1C.2080506@gmail.com> <20080611164612.T25711@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Wojciech Puchar wrote: |> tired of a dual-boot system, so I want to just install FreeBSD or |> another linux distribution(maybe ubuntu) on my notebook. |> |> My questions are: |> 1) Can FreeBSD work well with my hardware? The display card, |> CDRW/DVDRW, wireless, Ethernet and battery managment are the most |> important. | | not sure about display card. but everything else should be OK. it's | IBM/Lenovo :) nVIDIA drivers should support it: http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_100.14.09.html | |> 2) I have read the FreeBSD Handbook. According to Chapter 10: Linux |> Binary Compatibility, it seems that FreeBSD lacks support of many |> commercial softwares such as MATLAB, Oracle, Mathematica. Is the linux |> binary compatibility stable enough for work ? Linux emulation is stable enough, I would say. I've used it to run Mathematica 5 in the past (see handbook). - -- Pietro Cerutti gahr@FreeBSD.org PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREKAAYFAkhP/hsACgkQwMJqmJVx944oCQCfQN+mHM2k7RbGnQ45HW8qs/U+ 9aQAoN9vDKMqI8DoZAG3tJaJ0YefjX6b =x7TD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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