Since laptops seem to have the most peculiarities,
while at the same time being populated by quite a few
newbies... why not create an rpm with known specifics
for certain laptops.
For instance a Dell Inspiron rpm would include a
script that would place noapic on the append
statement, load the
Love the idea. Having one of these beasts and just getting the
knowledge to set it up has been a long haul - but worth it in the long
run! Too late for 8.2, but in the next release would allow Mandrake to
take over the laptop Linux market! - no competition in sight, a
perfect niche!
BillK
On
On Fri Mar 08 17:44 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
Love the idea. Having one of these beasts and just getting the
knowledge to set it up has been a long haul - but worth it in the long
run! Too late for 8.2, but in the next release would allow Mandrake to
take over the laptop Linux market! -
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:40:49AM -0500, Levi Ramsey wrote:
On Fri Mar 08 17:44 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
A laptop-i-fied distro is also an idea I've toyed with. You could put a
few packages that might enhance network client use, while not putting
servers besides an mta, maybe minimal
On Fri Mar 08 13:39 +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:40:49AM -0500, Levi Ramsey wrote:
On Fri Mar 08 17:44 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
A laptop-i-fied distro is also an idea I've toyed with. You could put a
few packages that might enhance network client use,
I was thinking of something a bit more scaled back,
with maybe contribs offering more extravagent
offerings. I just know that there are a few tweaks
specific to each laptop, vanilla tweaks like extra
keys, workarounds for things like apic, stuff like
that. This would make it easy to have the
