Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 19:24:54 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: Denis Malyavin <denism@mol.net.my>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hello Message-ID: <199604300124.TAA01656@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960429132620.19662A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> References: <3183E4C3.3060@mol.net.my> <Pine.BSF.3.91.960429132620.19662A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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> > I have a Toshiba T3400 486 25Mhz 12M Ram 110M HDD (notebook)
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> > Do you think its worth to install FreeBSD on my system?
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> It'll be tight, depending on what you put on. you need to have enough
> space either on there or on another FreeBSD machine to build a new kernel
> for. You _want_ to apply the Nomad PCMCIA patches.
^^^^^^
Hey, I take offense at that. The code in the Nomad's patches now exists
almost completely in -current, plus there are lots of bug-fixes for the
APM code in -current that doesn't exist in the Nomad patches.
If people don't run the actual FreeBSD code we'll never get real working
laptop support in a FreeBSD release. I emailed Hosokawa-san about this,
and he agrees. The Nomad code will continue to be 'alpha' quality
containing hacks and bad things that 'make things work', intended for
proof of concept than actual implementations.
However, the code in -current, while still containing some hacks, is
trying to be a more 'usable' solution for laptops.
Nate
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