FreeBSD is a great operating system. It's fast, reliable and you have superb control over all its features. I consider networking with FreeBSD extremely easy, as you can get down to the nitty-gritty in a few minutes. This page will constantly be filled by with information, small scripts and configuration files. Just have a look and maybe you find something you consider more or less useful (which is ATM not possible, I guess ;) ).

General information

Apart from my home workstation, I also run FreeBSD on my laptop, an IBM ThinkPad T20 R50e. There are no significant problems with FreeBSD 5.2.1 6.2 (except ACPI). If you also want an X server on your laptop, I recommend running a window manager, such as windowmaker, blackbox and fvwm. Don't run a whole desktop environment (KDE, GNOME) if you don't have at least 256MB RAM.

Here is a list of software packages I would not want to miss (look for them in the FreeBSD ports):