I purchased a Gateway Solo 9100 back in October, and I'm quite pleased
with it. Right now, I have Win98 (for DVD playing only... worst
operating system I've ever seen, had to wipe and reload it myself) and
two instances of WinNT server running on it. I haven't loaded up
Linux yet because I haven't found RedHat 5.2 (contains better notebook
support) on the shelves, but now that I have an Ethernet card and a
campus multi-T1 connection to the internet, I could just do an FTP
install.
The downside is that, so far, there is not a free X server that
supports the video chipset. You can buy the AccelleratedX(?) server,
which has support for the 9100's video chipset, for $170, I think.
I'll drop another e-mail here after I've gotten things up and running.
</CR>
Chris Rigsby
Soft Link, Inc.
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---Michel Charpentier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I have $ 3000 to spend, and I think I will use them to buy a nice
> notebook to run linux on.
>
> Besides the cost, my constraints are:
>
> - 14'' display (at least)
> - P II proc.
> - removable hard drive
> - 'good' keyboard (i.e. not a too poor case)
>
> I'm considering buying one of them:
>
> - Gateway Solo 9100 (LS, SE, cannot see the difference)
> - NEC Versa SX
> - HP Omnibook 4100 (but maybe too expensive for my budget)
> - Dell Inspiron (but I'm not sure they have removable HD)
>
> Do you see any reason why linux/XF86 should not work on one of these
> machines? Is one of them really better (worse) than the others? Did I
> miss _THE_ notebook for linux, and what is it? Well, any advice
> welcome.
>
> Thanks.
>
> MC
>
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> fax: 1-626-792-4257
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