Please advice about FreeBSD on Laptops

Hi all friends,


I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T61 Laptop with the following specifications:-

Intel Core Duo processor 2.40 GHz
128MB nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M
Intel 802.11agn wireless


My primary NEED for a Unix like Distribution is as follows:

A. Programming need.
B. Compilers, Linkers and Debuggers.
C. Speed in Mathematical calculations.

Just plain working fast computing.

Please advice if FreeBSD will be a good stable OS for Laptops.


Thanks
Saurav
 
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T61 Laptop with the following specifications
Generally speaking, FreeBSD works very good on ThinkPads.

Intel Core Duo processor 2.40 GHz
CPU scaling without any problems with powerd.

128MB nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M
Open source nv driver or binary blob nvidia on i386.

Intel 802.11agn wireless
Propably 4965agn, works great for me.

A. Programming need.
B. Compilers, Linkers and Debuggers.
C. Speed in Mathematical calculations.
All of these will be possible without problems on FreeBSD.

Please advice if FreeBSD will be a good stable OS for Laptops.
I use it on a laptop (also ThinkPad) and works great.
 
Which ISO to download?

I have finally decided on FreeBSD,

which Installation (.ISO) to procced :

AMD64 or I386, I am have a Intel -Core 2 (DUO) chipset 2.60 GHz which is in Intel x86 - 64 Architecture CPU.

So it should be AMD64 my guess?.

2nd qn: will my Wireless card and more importantly Nvidia Graphics card work with AMD64?

Thanks
Saurav
 
Use i386 mate (amd64 will gave you 64bits on Core 2 Duo but its not owrth it for desktop).

Currently there is no amd64 nVidia driver ...

WiFi should work ad amd64, but I used it only at i386, so cant confirm.

Also You will not have problems with WINE and Flash 10 on i386.

For standart CD-ROM install get disc1 image, if you would like to install from USB, hen bet memstick image and dd it onto your pendrive.
 
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