Sigh!!! These things are getting easier.
Having not installed Linux for a while now, I was given an IBM iSeries
Thinkpad to experiment with. I went to the nearest NewsAgency got a PC World
with the free RH 6.2 disk, and voila, 20 minutes later, I was chugging along
on the LAN, dialing up, X at 1024x768, and no fuss at all.
All far too easy now. That was one of the fastest installs of any OS I have
every done...
-- Aravind
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> Sent: Saturday, 20 May 2000 10:11
> To: Ka-shu Wong
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux laptops
>
>
> On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ka-shu Wong wrote:
>
> > I'm thinking of buying a laptop. Of course, it has to be able to run
> > linux.
> >
> > Does anyone have any recommendations of what to get, what to avoid,
> > etc... ? What experiences have SLUGgers had with getting linux
> to run on
> > laptops?
>
> Works great on my Thinkpad 600E - Redhat, TurboLinux and SuSE have all
> installed without problems - even to running X at 1024x768 in 16bpp mode.
>
> It even co-installed with Evilware.
>
> Couple of caveats - the inbuilt modem and sound card won't work {well,
> SuSE claims to identify it, all I have to do is figure out how to
> configure the sound card}, but it didn't worry me because my network
> PCMCIA card has a modem and 10/100 LAN in it.
>
> APM is somewhat dicky in its shutdown sometimes. Don't know why, and
> frankly since I run on mains most of the time, I don't care.
>
> Other than that, Linux works fine.
>
> DaZZa
>
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