Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:14:49 +1100 From: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3? Message-ID: <20041218121449.GG12385@thingy.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <41C40910.4080001@laverenz.de> References: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0412182055500.17965@dave.horsfall.org> <41C40910.4080001@laverenz.de>
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Uwe Laverenz (uwe@laverenz.de) [041218 21:39]: > Dave Horsfall wrote: > >So, the question is: should I be running 4.10 (because I track whatever my > >boss uses, and my home server uses it for that reason), or should I take > >the plunge and max-out my ADSL line in downloading 5.3? > You should use 5.3, it will run much better on your ThinkPad, it not > only supports Cardbus but also has support for ACPI, which I think is > quite necessary on a notebook. Does sound work properly in 5.3 on a laptop? I had so much trouble with FreeBSD on a laptop (an old Thinkpad 560X) that I ended up resorting to Debian. Which works well. - d.
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