Best release for IBM laptop R51

[Fabian Keil]

Graham North <northg at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I am planning to load FreeBSD as a dual boot on new IBM laptop.
> The model is an R51 which comes with:
> Radeon 7500 - video
> Intel Pro/1000 NT Mobile
> Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG
> Integrated Audio
> Intel 82802 UltraATA
> Can anyone tell me whether the above hardware is all supported and 
> stable in FreeBSD.

I had RELENG_5 installed on my ThinkPad R51 UN0K6GE until two weeks
ago when I switched to RELENG_6.
 
It was stable with 5.4 and is stable now. I just updated
to get some of the new features.

> Should I therefore download 6.0-Release and then just cvsup and
> rebuild?? Is this a better option than using 5.4 at this point?

I'd skip 5.4. It was good, but 6.0 is even better.

Fabian
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