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Comment by Terrance Young on October 31, 2008 at 3:15pm

I started using FreeBSD around April 1994 and my first install was FreeBSD 1.1.5 (yes I know I made a mistake on my first post it was supposed to be 1.1.5) I believe FreeBSD 1.0 was released late 1993. The 90's saw three major Updates and a whole version change to FBSD I really started liking it at around Ver 2.2.8 where there was quite a bit of changes that was making FBSD really great. I think think I met Jordan Hubbard who was the FBSD release engineer around that time. I still can't believe it's been that long already.

Comment by Brooke Fujita on October 31, 2008 at 2:21pm

Back @Terrance:

Thanks for the link, I haven't kept up with the list for while and I see that my wife's laptop isn't on the list, but 2 of the models there are close enough. I should be able to get FreeBSD going as soon as I can get my wife a replacement. I had FreeBSD 6 going on a spare IBM ThinkPad I had at my last job, even got the wireless card to work... it was sweet.

Comment by Ken Mayer on October 31, 2008 at 2:18pm

I used to work with FreeBSD, but that was in the late 90's.

Comment by Terrance Young on October 31, 2008 at 2:16pm

Great! check the Laptop Compatibility list for any issues with the laptop you plan to use. Here is the link http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/

Comment by Brooke Fujita on October 31, 2008 at 2:11pm

I've been tinkering about with FreeBSD since only fairly recent (5.1), and right now I've got 7 running on a virtual machine. But my dream is to commandeer my wife's laptop (it runs WinXP, but takes nearly 5 minutes from power-up to login), install 7 and configure it display Japanese. Of course, I would have to get her a replacement first.

Someday soon...

Comment by Terrance Young on October 21, 2008 at 10:59am

I've been involved in FreeBSD since version 1.5 and have been doing what I can in the PCBSD effort I've tapered off since the Births of my Two babies but hope slowly get back involved.

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