I'm running FreeBSD-CURRENT on a Thinkpad X220 and have no issues with any of the built-in peripherals. This laptop has an i5-2540M. The e1000 Ethernet is supported by the em(4) driver and I have a "Centrino Ultimate-N 6300" supported by iwn(4). The Intel GPU support was merged back to stable/9 in time for 9.1.

One of them wil be replacing my T61 then. Thanks for the report :)

Thanks, how about suspend/resume?

Right now suspend / resume is non-functional from a user's perspective: that is, suspend works, and I can resume, but the screen does not turn back on. I hope that this can be fixed for 9.2.

Some related recent links: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2012-Dece... http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/174504

I'm running Arch w/ Gnome Shell on this Thinkpad T520.

I use ZFS on Arch (although not on this laptop, actually). I don't think you _need_ to choose?

How well does ZFS work under FUSE?

I have no idea. zfs on linux [1] is a different approach: It's a kernel module, out of the official tree (due to the license issues).

FUSE should work as well, I .. just didn't try. So ZFS for me is now a ~normal~ kernel filesystem, with some caveats about the external dependency and ignoring the big 'solaris layer' it needs to provide before zfs even starts.

1: http://zfsonlinux.org/