Hi,
On Thu, Nov 03 at 05:58, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote:
> I understand that people do have laptops running Linux, so how is
> it done? I would be grateful for any advice.
I've has a couple of ancient laptops running linux in my time and
my current EEE-PC N900 is coming to the end of
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire <
hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> What is the best way to acquire a laptop running Linux these
> days?
My friend has had great success with https://minifree.org/ -- especially if
you're interested in the freedom (or
An appeal from the TNMOC. all you need to do is vote.
If you have never been, I strongly suggest that you go and see for yourself.
I worked of some of the kit they have working back in the day.
Bletchley Park Trust is adjacent. You have to go through BPT to get to
the Car Park and the TNMOC.
I've been very pleased with my PC Specialist laptop.
For other laptop (and other hardware) Novatech in Portsmouth has been very
useful as you can purchase PCs and laptops without preinstalled Windows,
so you don't have to pay for an OS that you immediately replace with
another.
Andy
> +1 from
+1 from me for PC Specialist; I bought both a laptop (pre-UEFI) and a
desktop (UEFI) PC from them, and I had no problem at all installing
Linux (Mint) on them. They also give you the capability to tailor the
basic specification (choice of CPU, RAM, HDD/SSD, optical drive, ...)
according to
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016, at 09:03 AM, Bob Dunlop via Hampshire wrote:
> Avoid modern Lenovo [1]. Although they've reluctantly issued a BIOS
> fix it sounds like it a performance hit.
Lenovo's Thinkpad line is still mostly pretty good with Linux, at least
when I was looking last year. Those
On Friday 04 November 2016 16:24:31 Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016, at 09:03 AM, Bob Dunlop via Hampshire wrote:
> > Avoid modern Lenovo [1]. Although they've reluctantly issued a BIOS
> > fix it sounds like it a performance hit.
>
> Lenovo's Thinkpad line is still
If I reply to list from a mailing list folder, I normally achieve just that.
I have just checked several other LUGS. If I reply to list from my Hampshire
LUG folder it replies to me. Why on earth and what can I do?
KMail 1.9.10 on Trinity DE R14.0.4.
Lisi
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On 2016-11-04 12:24, Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote:
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016, at 09:03 AM, Bob Dunlop via Hampshire wrote:
Avoid modern Lenovo [1]. Although they've reluctantly issued a BIOS
fix it sounds like it a performance hit.
Lenovo's Thinkpad line is still mostly pretty good with
