Apologies in advance for this commercial message--it's only related to Linux in that I've been thinking about buying a laptop to bring to EugLug meetings...
I think I'm going to pass up on buying a laptop from a friend of mine, but it seems like such a good deal that I thought I'd let you know: For Sale $850 firm ------------------ Sony Vaio PCG-FX210, 10G Hard disk, 800 Duron CPU, 512mg Memory Builtin Rage compatible Video, Modem, 10/100 ethernet, cd/dvd, sound, floppy. Power adapter included. WindowsME included. Optional HP external usb cd-burner for $50. It seems to have lots of places to plug things in. This is a great little machine that looks like new. It now has Win2000 installed, and Office Professional, but the licenses for that are not included in this deal--besides, you will want to reformat and install Linux anyway. The owner is selling because he upgraded to a 1.8ghz laptop. He bought this one new last summer or fall. It booted from a linuxcare bootable business card, but choked when I tried to load Demo Linux v.3--something's not configured right in DemoLinux for dealing with the pcmcia slots. Read the info at Linuxlaptop.org for info on setting it up. If you are interested let me know, I plan to bring it to the next meeting (depending on when the next euglug meeting is!) Ralph
