The only "problem" i have with linux on a laptop is the battery life time!!. It seems always shorter than with windows.
Patrick On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:44:32 +0100 (BST) Mick Gower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Johannes Graumann wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm about to get a new laptop and I was wondering whether somebody could comment > > on the usability of Gentoo on a laptop system. > > I can see two arguments: > > - laptop with little resources - customization of gentoo might be advantagous ... > > - laptop with little resources - all that compiling will kill you! > > > My first ever gentoo install was on this 1ghz, 128mb > laptop. I did a stage 1 install, it took a while, and with > hind sight I would have left a kde compile to much later > (especially as I am a gnome user at heart). > IIRC it took about 5 days to install, but i did have to > work sleep and annoy the kids. But now i have a laptop that > gives the impression of running quicker though i havent > benchmarked anything > > -- > Mick Gower http://www.takingnonotice.com > uptime 07:34:13 up 10 days, 7:34, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.10 > I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, > we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad. > -- Jack Handley > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > -- "Please, Spock, do me a favor don't say it's 'fascinating'." -- Dr. McCoy "No... but it is... interesting..." -- Spock PGP Key: http://users.pandora.be/rivendell/marquetp.gpg Fingerprint = 2792 057F C445 9486 F932 3AEA D3A3 1B0C 1059 273B ICQ# 316932703 Registered Linux User #44550 http://counter.li.org
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