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Even with the Pentium M in the Thinkpad, can I run Netbook Remix? Their documentation states an Atom processor.

You can install the netbook packages over a standard 32-bit ubuntu installation. There are a couple of pages on the wiki for how to do that.

If you really want to stretch your brain install one of the BSD's and use that as your desktop for a while.

If you load up FreeBSD or OpenBSD and work through the documentation and stick with it for a couple of months you will be a better system administrator and a better developer because you will have been exposed to some of the different ways of solving the problems of building an effective operating system.

openbsd tends to do its own way tho, so it's kinda hard to google for common unix problems (its faq+man pages are more reliable because they are more specific)

i started freebsd (5.3 iirc) like 5+ years ago and abandoned it for openbsd 3.6. do i miss anything?

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