On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Nat Taylor wrote:
I have had good luck with used laptops. You have to assume that you're
gonna buy a new battery, and maybe a hard drive. Run a bunch of tests on
it, and use the keyboard and trackpad a bunch before you buy it in person,
or get a trial period. They are cheap
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, TomasK wrote:
Lenovo Thinkpad T14 and X13s are supported on linux - you can even get
some of them with linux preinstalled.
Tomas,
I install Slackware on all hosts. I don't recall if my old Dell came with an
empty hard drive or had some OS installed. First thing I did was
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Patrick O'Connor wrote:
Thinkpad t480I got a used one this year.
Thanks, Patrick.
Rich
https://community.frame.work/t/ubuntu-21-04-on-the-framework-laptop/2722
~~R
StGeorge
On 2/25/22 09:13, Randy Bush wrote:
i am tempted by the FrameWork, but anything other than ubuntu might take
work
randy
I have had good luck with used laptops. You have to assume that you're
gonna buy a new battery, and maybe a hard drive. Run a bunch of tests on
it, and use the keyboard and trackpad a bunch before you buy it in person,
or get a trial period. They are cheap enough on ebay you could fix a lot.
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 20:30:13 -0500
TomasK dijo:
>I cannot recommend Dells shipping with Linux right now - they ended up
>being devoid of even basic number of USB ports recently. If you do not
>need more than 1 or 2 USB-C ports (one taken by the charger) - and can
>receive Fed-Ex delivery (I
Lenovo Thinkpad T14 and X13s are supported on linux - you can even get
some of them with linux preinstalled.
I usually aim for newest supported HW to extend useful live - so, the
last time I ended up paying MS tax, but I still get bios updates via
fwupdmgr and everything working without issues.
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Ben Koenig wrote:
For the ntpd issue you might want to check and see if you are getting an
iP address. The error message you posted on LQ almost looks like the
network isn't coming up in time which is not unusual when you select the
rc.inet1 scripts to configure your
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, David Bridges wrote:
If you do decide to take a look at used equipment and you don't mind
buying out of state I think that https://discountelectronics.com/ is a
nice place to buy equipment from.
Thanks, David. That's good to know.
Regards,
Rich
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Robert Citek wrote:
Hope that's helpful. And let us know how things go for you.
Robert,
It's why I'm working to get the Dell working reliably once again. It
satisfies all my needs with the 8G memory and 500G SSD.
Thanks,
Rich
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote:
This could be some type of network issue. Maybe the rc.ntpd script is
expecting the network to be up but that now happens later in the bootup
and so it just hangs waiting for something that is not there. Did you
write the rc.ntpd script or is it part of
/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Replacement laptop
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 12:26:07 -0800
My 2¢. Look at the FreeGeek ebay store. They have recycled laptops for
cheap, already running Linux.
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 8:32 AM Rich Shepard
wrote:
>
> I think it's time to replace my Dell Latitude
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 2:08 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote:
>
> > So this is on a totally clean install of the newest version of Slackware?
> > That's a major bug. Seems like someone else would have noticed this. Is
> > there a slightly newer version where this
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Russell Senior wrote:
My 2¢. Look at the FreeGeek ebay store. They have recycled laptops for
cheap, already running Linux.
Thanks, Russell. I forgot that the online store is still working.
Regards,
Rich
My 2¢. Look at the FreeGeek ebay store. They have recycled laptops for
cheap, already running Linux.
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 8:32 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> I think it's time to replace my Dell Latitude E5410 since it's giving me
> fits installing Slackware64-15.0. It's run Slackware since about
Wow! This is a highly personal question that really depends on your use
cases.
But for a point of comparison, my use cases tend to be bimodal. That is, my
compute needs are either very light ( email, browsing, text editing ) or
very heavy ( analysis of scores of TB ) with very little in between.
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote:
So this is on a totally clean install of the newest version of Slackware?
That's a major bug. Seems like someone else would have noticed this. Is
there a slightly newer version where this might be fixed?
Bill,
I think the boot process for the 5.15.19
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 1:36 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote:
>
> > What kind of major issues installing slackware? I would think the best
> > laptop is the one you have. I don't think they have not improved
> > dramatically over the last few years in any
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote:
What kind of major issues installing slackware? I would think the best
laptop is the one you have. I don't think they have not improved
dramatically over the last few years in any dimension that will matter to
you. You don't need a high end gaming graphics
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Nat Taylor wrote:
I just bought an ASUS TUF for the graphics card, but my X220 is still
going strong and the battery (that I bough maybe 5 years ago) is still
going strong, so if I replace that laptop, I’ll go for another used
Thinkpad. The ASUS ultrabooks also looked like
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Nat Taylor wrote:
How about an X1 Carbon or an XPS 13?
Nat,
Amazon wants about $1600 for the X1 Carbon and about $1300 for the XPS 13.
The DIY FrameWork costs about $1050 for 16G RAM and 1T storage. Plus my
assembly time, of course.
Thanks,
Rich
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 10:32 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> I think it's time to replace my Dell Latitude E5410 since it's giving me
> fits installing Slackware64-15.0. It's run Slackware since about 2010,
> upgraded as new releases became available, but now it has major issues with
> the new
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Randy Bush wrote:
i am tempted by the FrameWork, but anything other than ubuntu might take
work
Randy,
While the cost is higher than I'd like I think it should more than pay for
the difference by its ability to be upgraded and have components replaced if
necessary. Since
I just bought an ASUS TUF for the graphics card, but my X220 is still going
strong and the battery (that I bough maybe 5 years ago) is still going
strong, so if I replace that laptop, I’ll go for another used Thinkpad.
The ASUS ultrabooks also looked like a good choice potentially.
On Fri, Feb
How about an X1 Carbon or an XPS 13?
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 9:31 AM Rich Shepard
wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> >> What company makes a laptop named FrameWork?
> >
> > https://frame.work/ :)
>
> Randy,
>
> Of course. :-)
>
> Above my budget (for the DIY) but looks really
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Randy Bush wrote:
What company makes a laptop named FrameWork?
https://frame.work/ :)
Randy,
Of course. :-)
Above my budget (for the DIY) but looks really good.
Thanks,
Rich
> What company makes a laptop named FrameWork?
https://frame.work/ :)
randy
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Randy Bush wrote:
i am tempted by the FrameWork, but anything other than ubuntu might take
work
Randy,
What company makes a laptop named FrameWork?
Rich
i am tempted by the FrameWork, but anything other than ubuntu might take
work
randy
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