On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:11:22 -0500 (CDT) Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good laptop to run linux on (preferably gentoo)? > > The only graphical program I intend to run is Mozilla, otherwise I > will use text based programs. I guess I just want a dumb terminal that > can do X. > > I was wondering, since gentoo is a source-based distrobution, how > *slow* of a computer can be useful? > > Would mozilla run well on a Pentium II-266 Mhz? I realize there are > other browsers like links & lynx, but they don't seem to render most > pages correctly. > > What does X need to run smoothly, say as a dumb terminal? > > I was also hoping it could last more than 3 hours on battery without > weighing a ton.... (and be able to use a wireless network card). > > I suppose this is too much... A little late... but I run the windows manager pekwm (www.pekwm.org) on a IBM ThinkPad 600X, PIII 600Mhz 256Mb, DVD, 30Gb Toshiba Hard-Drive (an upgrade), I'm got both a D-Link PCMCIA DWL-650 Wireless Card and a Xircom 32bit 10/100 rb100 card. Everything works fine from the start, with the exception of the Xircom card which works fine from the 1.4-r4 live-cd, but freezes my system upon insertion on my installed system. I have not really tried hard to sort that out as user my wireless card 95% of the time. Other than the 4 days it took to compile everything :-) This makes a fine choice for a laptop. If the USE="" optimizations where to give my laptop a 5% boost in performance it is worth the time. I've used SuSE for 4 years and the latest 8.2 put way too much stuff on the system (bloat) causing it to be much slower. I'm not sure that if they where to have the same package that there would be any difference in performance, but all the extras of SuSE 8.2 are not suited to old Laptops. Gentoo rocks! -- bruce
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