On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 07:38:05PM -0800, Vedanta Teacher wrote: > Everyone, > > After some deliberation I've decided to build my own *laptop* in the new > year and install Linux on a virgin HD. I did have some questions:
Laptops can be modified, but building a laptop from scratch is not practical. I deeply modify my own, starting with used laptops. For example, 15 inch diagonal 4x3 form factor IBM T60 laptops, with the screen replaced with 2048x1536 glass. I have enough spares of both to last as long as I do, though the 2048 glass is no longer in production, and the surplus market prices are skyrocketing. Someday, I hope other business users will realize that taller high rez screens are better for A and A4 size page composition, and create demand for the production of new tall screen laptops, Security, CPU, etc? I don't know of any CPU that is "better" for security, and if one had special features for that, the kernel would need to support those features. I would love a CPU with byte-counting interfaces, and large integer modulo arithmetic, and a kernel that exploited these to cryptographically checksum modules and programs as they come off the disk. But most people believe that sofware-only security is sufficient, so I don't expect to see such hardware soon. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
