Centrino

Wed May 14 10:34:04 PDT 2003

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:07:31PM +0200, Lesly Weyts wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanna buy a new laptop with a Pentium M (the newest processor from Intel 
> especially for mobile computers) and install freeBSD on it with KDE. Is 
> that possible ... I've heard that the architecture of the new CPU is 
> different and that Unix/Linux not run on those processors. Is that true or 
> ... and if it is true ... will there soon be support for the 
> centrino-platform. I hope it because I need mobile computers and I love the 
> fact that I can work longer with a Pentium M.

The Pentium M is entierly compatable with other modern x86 processors.
A friend of mine works for a company that is building embedded boards
with it that run unmodified x86 Linux.

-- Brooks

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