I am seriously thinking of switching from Mac OS X to Linux for several reasons. One is I just don't like being "captive" completely to one company for all my hardware and software. I like the freedom and choice available in Linux.
Another is I have been having serious problems with Apple hardware quality lately. Anybody interested can read about it in my personal blog at http://injapan.net/.1c3eecb8 I'm not completely inexperienced in Linux. I also have a Linux box running Redhat 9.0 which I use for a forums server. And I have used both Gnome and KDE somewhat, and have installed Linux several times on different machines. So I'm not worried about that so much. But I've never used Linux day-to-day as my main workstation and have a few questions: (1) Can somebody recommend a good quality, not too heavy, not overly expensive notebook computer for day-to-day work in Linux? (2) Do Linux and most Intel-based notebook computers support multiple (external) monitors, either as a second monitor or as a mirrored monitor? I often give presentations and need to connect my notebook computer to a display projector. This is trivially easy with my Mac, and I was just wondering if it would be as easy with Linux? (4) I do my work mostly in English, but with a lot of Japanese mixed in. Is setting up Linux to support Japanese reading and also input not-too-hard? I've tried doing this before in previous versions with mixed success. Are there sufficient applications which support Japanese, such as a good email client? Thanks! Doug Lerner, Tokyo -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
