Oh wow, thanks for the fast reply and the bunch of tips. I'll order the notebook and boot some LiveCD-Systems. If there are any problems (like unrecognized hardware) I'll donate this notebook to my GF ;)
greetings! -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Alex Howells Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2007 22:12 An: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Betreff: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Gentoo on Samsung Q45 > > Typically speaking the LiveCD lags several versions behind the > > latest kernel.org kernel so it's not a 100% indicator whether things > > will work. > > for example, opensuse's one was always current with the distro. the > distro was out less than 14 days ago and included a lot of new > packages. that one i pretty good in terms of drivers (has the 2.6.22r8 if i > don't miss). > your affirmation is good to point out that if livecd works out then > surely the installed distro would surelly go well. > i was forgetting: for all the new processors it's possibile to run > paravirtualized windows on linux with xen. so you can run windows and > linux at the same time if you need to. also i would recommend > installing linux on a lvm2 (on the gentoo docs should be some instructions on > how to do it). However you may end up fighting with the fact xen-sources usually lags several major versions behind gentoo-sources; and also end up fighting with qemu-dm to get your hardware virtualized copy of Windows running. Last I checked HVM is also quite slow. Given all the options I've stuck with VMware for virtualizing MS Windows lately. Obviously not acceptable if you can't live with a binary blob though, although these days you can pick up VMware Server for free and it's perfectly functional. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
