Bill, I got one these for work yesterday and now have a happy Debian system. The only
issue I know of and haven't tried to get working yet is that Potato does not have
support for the audio chipset - Maestro 3 - and a few months ago on a previous model I
could not get sound working. I'm kinda hoping this has changed, I'll find out soon
enough.
As you've emailed both debian-laptop and SLUG I'm assuming you're in Sydney. On
Saturday, 10th March (ie: tomorrow) we're holding an install fest, I'd recommend
coming along - details are at http://www.slug.org.au/ .
One of the benefits of this will be having many able hands around. I brought my partly
functional C600 to the Debian stand at Linux Expo last night and while I was
evangelising Debian to hapless passer-by's a few people jumped on my laptop and
finished tweaking XFree 4 and other various things I hadn't got around to making work
properly.
Ta guys!
Thus spake Bill Shui ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi there,
> I am thinking of buying a laptop for work/uni, etc.
> I came across the Dell Latitude C600 series.
>
> With some modification such as 256MB RAM, PIII850, 20GB IDE HDD,
> etc.
>
> I was just wandering if anyone has bought a Dell laptop similar to the
> spec above. If so, how smooth does debian potato run on these machines?
>
> Your reply would be much appreciated.
>
> cheers.
> Bill
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> very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
> -- Dick Brandon
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Craige.
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