Installing FreeBSD 7 (i386) on a ThinkPad T43

Features

FreeBSD is an UNIX operating system for x86 and others compatible architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a team of individuals.

FreeBSD offers advanced networking, performance, security and compatibility features which are still missing in some of the best commercial operating systems.

FreeBSD makes an ideal Internet or Intranet server. It provides robust network services under the heaviest loads and uses memory efficiently to maintain good response times for thousands of simultaneous user processes. But on notebooks it is a very usable and a great operating system with many features for power management.

With over 17,000 ported libraries and applications for desktop, server, appliance, and embedded environments. There are many applications which were designed for the use with notebooks.

The best is that FreeBSD is free. On the one side the licence model guaranties that (BSD or BSDL licence) and on the other hand it costs nothing. It is certainly possible to buy CDs or DVDs.

Installation

The best to install FreeBSD on a ThinkPad T43 is to download the ISO files and burn them. You can find the ISOs right here FTP Server of FreeBSD. Choose the version you want to install.

Hint:

It is better to choose one of the mirrors which you can find here: List of mirrors

External links

• The excellent FreeBSD manual: FreeBSD Handbook