Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:47:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: "fdu.xiaojf@gmail.com" <fdu.xiaojf@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ? Message-ID: <20080611164612.T25711@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <484FCA1C.2080506@gmail.com> References: <484FCA1C.2080506@gmail.com>
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> 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 :) > 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 ? works at least for acrobat reader completely.
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