Lazy Geeks Blog

I installed FreeBSD on my laptop last night.

Epic Fail

FreeBSD 8 (current stable) does not support my laptop’s network card without a kernel recompile.

The OS trials is now on hold as I have lent my laptop out to Rene – I will resume OS Trials when I get my laptop back, so stay tuned.

UPDATE: Never got my laptop back, it’s been sold!
However I will do OS trials in virtualisation some point in the future.

Now that I have 4 monitors on my main PC, I find that I’m not using my laptop a huge amount (which up until last month was my primary desktop).

I’ve decided to use my laptop as a test bed for a big stack of operating systems.
Read about which ones after the break!
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