From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 16:32:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F95C106564A for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:32:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gahr@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cpanel03.rubas-s03.net (cpanel03.rubas-s03.net [195.182.222.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25EE08FC1C for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:32:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gahr@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [213.142.183.219] (helo=gahrtop.localhost) by cpanel03.rubas-s03.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K6TFY-0004aP-Ow; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:32:40 +0200 Message-ID: <484FFE1C.9000704@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:32:28 +0200 From: Pietro Cerutti Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080610) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wojciech Puchar References: <484FCA1C.2080506@gmail.com> <20080611164612.T25711@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080611164612.T25711@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=9571F78E; url=http://gahr.ch/pgp/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel03.rubas-s03.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - FreeBSD.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: "fdu.xiaojf@gmail.com" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:32:51 -0000 -----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-----