Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

[Pietro Cerutti]

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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
|> 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 :)

nVIDIA drivers should support it:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_100.14.09.html

|
|> 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 ?

Linux emulation is stable enough, I would say. I've used it to run
Mathematica 5 in the past (see handbook).


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