I have gentoo running on a Dell Inspiron 8200. (1.8mhz 256 meg) Really no issues that I ran across that were in anyway laptop specific. (I have it on four other desktop systems)
Just user error/ignorance of a general sort. :^) My only concern was heat...a 14+ hour compile can generate alot of heat in a laptop. But that also never seemed to be an issue. Hardware....no problems (modem, DVD, ethernet, nvidia card, etc....) So I'd say give it a go.... Happy Gentoo'ing -Andy- -----Original Message----- From: Johnny Andersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Laptop + Gentoo I'm getting a laptop soon. Not the latest model, but reasonably useable (aiming for somewhere around 800 MHz, 256 meg). I'm using Gentoo on my desktop machine and I like it. I wonder if any of you have opinions on Gentoo on a laptop. I realize that the usual set-aside-a-day-to-compile-kde rules apply, but other than that, is Gentoo a wise choise for laptops? My theory is that as Gentoo is very customizable, and as you _have_ to compile your own kernel, the odds that you're gonna get your hardware working is good. Any comments? Or does anyone have good experiences with other distros on laptops? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
