Laptops, PC Cards, and FreeBSD

FreeBSD on laptops has had a checkered history. For a long time, unique laptop hardware had minimal support. Eventually, various Japanese users began the FreeBSD-PAO project to support this hardware. The main FreeBSD tree finally absorbed most of PAO just before 4.0-RELEASE. Now, various people are working on a complete rewrite of the laptop system to accommodate CardBus. FreeBSD on a laptop is quite comfortable to work in; my main system has been a laptop for the last two years, and I’ve never regretted it.

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