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From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
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Subject: Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?
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Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> writes:

> Any ideas on something interesting to use it for?  Maybe some kind of
> learning experience?

Well, if you can use it as a portable computer, that's cool.  I guess
that's what you should do, if you can.

The second best choice is to learn.  You could try something weird,
like Plan 9 or GNU Hurd or another BSD (not really weird), or some
other little-known OS.  I hear there are prople trying to reimplement
Windows NT under the GPL.

Kai