On Sat, Jul 07, 2001, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:
> http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/alliances/linux/systems.html
>
> Seems like they come preinstalled with Caldera OpenLinux4
> Desktop 2. which says has kernel 2.2.14
>
Yes, but I do not think the IBM vendors in our friendly
neighbourhood doles out any such thing ... they all come with
some form of M$ OS (except for Macs ofcourse). I could be
wrong here, just out of inquisitiveness, I want to know if
anyone managed to get a pre-installed Linux box on any laptop
in any of our cities ?
> Other than that I have a Toshiba laptop of my own which has
> seen everything from RedHat 5.x to 7.x and none of them ever
> complained out of the box.
>
I did a Toshiba and an Acer install. Installation per se was
no problem. In both I had to struggle with the internal modem
... Not tried RH though ...
> Ofcourse one should never forget
> http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html
>
This is an invaluable resource ... when things go wrong ...
RTFM !
> As for HOWTO's whats wrong with firing
> up Internet Explorer on Win2K to visit
> http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html more
> specifically http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Laptop-HOWTO.html
> or even http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/4mb-Laptops.html
>
Thanks for reminding about this option ... Never even thought
of it. Contents registered. This sure is a way out ... but for
a first time voyager into the Linux world, my feeling is, much
of this FM would still be Latin and Greek !
I would still suggest first hand help for a first time install
(in the case of an absolute novice). Moreso, if he has always
been a Win man, where he needs to unlearn several things first
before learning afresh with a unix/ linux mindset ...
Bish.
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