I&#x27;ve historically run on Thinkpads.<p>I&#x27;ve had accelerated Intel integrated gfx, working wireless (Intel Centrino 4965&#x2F;5000&#x2F;1000, 1000&#x2F;2000&#x2F;6000, 7260&#x2F;7265&#x2F;3160), tuneable CPU frequency...<p>If you&#x27;ve got the luxury of some medium that you can do a test install on, just do it. The install is text-based and really simple, so you shouldn&#x27;t get hung up there. I assume you&#x27;ll want X11, so you&#x27;ll run &quot;X -configure&quot; to generate an xorg.conf. Grab the pkgsrc[0] framework to build 3rd party apps from source, or, use pkg_add(1)[1] (I don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s currently available for NetBSD7 in terms of pre-built packages; quick check shows at least some packages are, and they&#x27;re _probably_ the most popular ones)<p>#netbsd on freenode.net IRC is your friend, too.<p>Good luck!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pkgsrc.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pkgsrc.org&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftp.netbsd.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;pkgsrc&#x2F;current&#x2F;pkgsrc&#x2F;README-all.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftp.netbsd.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;pkgsrc&#x2F;current&#x2F;pkgsrc&#x2F;README-all.h...</a>