I am currently running a dual boot win98/RH7.2 very successfully... The hardware is a thinkpad 770x (these things come with a three year transferable warranty) it is an extremely sturdy box and you can even get a linux driver for the mwave winmodem from IBM.
rating ***** good luck! Danny Mike wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am looking to buy my first Laptop PC, second hand. I need something cheap > that will do Win98SE and dual as a (very simple) linux machine. All I need > to be able to do is connect it to my LAN and run Office on the Win side. For > linux I need to be able to install Apache, PHP MYSQL and a browser and that's > all. > > The ones that seem to be available are Toshiba 'Satellites' and IBM > ThinkPads. Does anyone have anythoughts about the best one to go for with > Linux in mind? Or does anyone know of a reliable seller of used machines? > > Sorry for asking such a broad question but I have no experience of Laptoips > at all. > > Thanks in advance, > > mike > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
