Re: [CentOS] (semi-) rugged laptop running CentOS 5?

2010-04-19 Thread john maclean
IBM Thinkpads are quite strong in th sense that they are very sturdy and have titanium casing. Not rugged as such but I have travelled with an X30 all over the place and it has been thrown into taxis, fallen down stairs... still boots ;-) On 15 April 2010 23:53, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com

Re: [CentOS] (semi-) rugged laptop running CentOS 5?

2010-04-19 Thread John R Pierce
john maclean wrote: IBM Thinkpads are quite strong in th sense that they are very sturdy and have titanium casing. Not rugged as such but I have travelled with an X30 all over the place and it has been thrown into taxis, fallen down stairs... still boots ;-) it was the wet part of '1

[CentOS] (semi-) rugged laptop running CentOS 5?

2010-04-15 Thread Jim Davis
We're looking for a laptop to run in a 10,000', cold, occasionally wet environment, and it needs to run CentOS 5. Perhaps something like the Dell Latitude E6400 ATG? There's a reference to a minor trackball bug for the 6400 under CentOS 5 (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4192) but otherwise it

Re: [CentOS] (semi-) rugged laptop running CentOS 5?

2010-04-15 Thread John R Pierce
Jim Davis wrote: We're looking for a laptop to run in a 10,000', cold, occasionally wet environment, and it needs to run CentOS 5. Perhaps something like the Dell Latitude E6400 ATG? There's a reference to a minor trackball bug for the 6400 under CentOS 5