I already caught some flak for crossposting to -users, so I'll snip all the advocacy bits and just hit a few points briefly.
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Jimmy Johansson wrote:
Second, I think you can. You just have to take a bit of care. ... I actually built this machine a few weeks ago. It runs NetBSD 5.1 if I disable ACPI and NetBSD current I could install without changing anything, but it was unstable until I set "USB controller mode" to FullSpeed and after that it is rock solid.
Good to hear. What about 3D graphics acceleration, any problems there? That, and USB UMTS/3G modems is really the stuff I'm worrying about right now.
I actually kind of run Plan9... Just for fun though. See cool above.
I'm trying it out this weekend. :-) MAgnus