Hi NetBSD people
I'm looking to buy a new laptop and simultaneously learning
to run
NetBSD on it. I've some experience with Linux, so I'm not a
total
n00b, but I haven't really done much "in-depth"
with any BSD.
I would like to know what laptop vendors/models people
recommend for
installing NBSD on, and what gaps (if any) exist in hardware
support.
To get things started I should mention that I was looking at
buying
one of either IBM/Lenovo, Fujitsu, or the British makes Mesh
or Acorn
- but I'm not opposed to other suggestions. The system
should have, at
minimum:
15.4" WXGA widescreen LCD
60GB HD
AMD64 CPU
At minimum I would like a system where suspend
"works" in some fashion
and where I can get online with wireless networking. I have
a PC Card
wireless modem which is known to work in Linux and I suspect
it will
work in NBSD, so if a given laptop's inbuilt wifi doesn't
work it's
not a disaster as long as the pc card slot is supported.
Also, are there any specific issues regarding running NBSD
on laptops?
TIA
Jeff
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