On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 19:59 -0700, Phillip Waclawski wrote: > I called Dell to see if there was a way to avoid the "Vista Tax" on one > of the 1520's, but no go. So, using the educational discount, I ordered > one of the Dell Inspiron 1420's with Ubuntu. I should get it by the end > of September. > > Oh, I'm not sure if I can make any more of the meetings, but does > someone post them to this list? I would like to come by and drop off > some of the schwag I got from the LinuxWorld Expo. > > And, on the Ubuntu note. I have not played with it much, but I do know > that it uses Sudo instead of su and a root account. How hard is it to > set up a root account/su, and also install the server support software > (apache, mysql, python, php etc)? > > I know I can figure it out for myself when I get it, but any advice to > reduce the learning curve will be appreciated. Though I may still be > tempted just to put Fedora 7 on it ;) ---- be sure to monitor linux on laptops web pages...
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html for Dell specifically, though I don't see an Inspiron 1520 there at this point, one may show up and perhaps something like the 1501 would be similar enough... also, Dell has a few Linux mail lists which are useful... http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/ see Linux-Desktops Craig ps there's not much difference using sudo and 'su -' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss