Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 02:35:12PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:09:09PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 December 2003 06:00 pm, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Greg, snip about laptops Debian also worked for me

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-24 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] Hi Micha, I guess that's were PenguinComputing comes in... :-) They support cetain win/linux models and handle support I would assume better on both OS's. K They don't do laptops. Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-23 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:35:12 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: Debian also worked for me on sony (The modem takes a bit of works but all the rest was supported) although the customer support can't even answer questions related to XP properly (in fact I haven't managed to get a proper answer from

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 06:26:15AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi D-U list folks, there was a recent thread about TigerDirect giving the nod to M$WINDOWS. Now threre is a place to buy debian-certified (and can be preloaded with debian or RH) laptops! (from LWN.net) http://lwn.net/Articles/63933/

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:41:36AM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 06:26:15AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi D-U list folks, there was a recent thread about TigerDirect giving the nod to M$WINDOWS. Now threre is a place to buy debian-certified (and can be preloaded with

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-22 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:09:09PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 December 2003 06:00 pm, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Greg, many people on this list and and may gnu/linux people in general wish for HW vendors to show some kind of 'yes,

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-21 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 December 2003 06:00 pm, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Greg, many people on this list and and may gnu/linux people in general wish for HW vendors to show some kind of 'yes, this work with $OS_FLAVOR' on par with the 'we recommend XP' or

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kevin Mark wrote: Hi D-U list folks, there was a recent thread about TigerDirect giving the nod to M$WINDOWS. Now threre is a place to buy debian-certified (and can be preloaded with debian or RH) laptops! (from LWN.net) http://lwn.net/Articles/63933/ LinuxCertified Announces Debian Certified

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-20 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi D-U list folks, there was a recent thread about TigerDirect giving the nod to M$WINDOWS. Now threre is a place to buy debian-certified (and can be preloaded with debian or RH) laptops! (from LWN.net) http://lwn.net/Articles/63933/ Has anyone bought

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Has anyone bought one of these? Or any of the other models. Care to share your experience? LinuxCertified has kindly loaned me one to use as a test system in my work on the Debian installer. It's a nice laptop, though about 3x the size I'm used to (I used to use a

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-20 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:35 am, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: Hi D-U list folks, there was a recent thread about TigerDirect giving the nod to M$WINDOWS. Now threre is a place to buy debian-certified (and can be preloaded

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 05:16:41PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:35 am, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: Hi D-U list folks, there was a recent thread about TigerDirect giving the nod to M$WINDOWS. Now

Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-29 Thread Mario Vukelic
Sorry, I missed the start of the thread. Some links: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ http://lhd.zdnet.com/superguides/laptops.html http://xtops.de/ http://www.linux.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=26aid=7548 http://www.tuxtops.com/ -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-28 Thread Kari Ruohonen
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:53:11 +0200 LAMIRAULT Nicolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello everybody, i will buy a laptop. Perhaps it will be the HP Pavillon N 5461. Does anybody have install debian linux on this laptop ? Could you send me some links to know on which laptops i can install

Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:53:11AM +0200, LAMIRAULT Nicolas wrote: Could i have yours point of view about install of Linux on others laptops ? Tricky part is PCMCIA. Especially NIC. PCMCIA modules during initialization become daemon before finishing all initialization. So sometimes race

Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-27 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:53:11 +0200 LAMIRAULT Nicolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello everybody, i will buy a laptop. Perhaps it will be the HP Pavillon N 5461. Does anybody have install debian linux on this laptop ? Could you send me some links to know on which laptops i can install linux

RE: Debian on laptops

2001-09-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Sep-2001 LAMIRAULT Nicolas wrote: hello everybody, i will buy a laptop. Perhaps it will be the HP Pavillon N 5461. Does anybody have install debian linux on this laptop ? Could you send me some links to know on which laptops i can install linux easily. Could i have yours point of

Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-26 Thread Charles Baker
Have a look at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ For a list of laptops that linux has been installed on as well as users write ups of what they did and sometimes their config files. Also, there is a debian-laptops mailing list which is very valuable. --- LAMIRAULT Nicolas

Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-26 Thread Alexander Wallace
I have an HP Omnibook EX3, and installed a debian distro in it (libranet) with no problems, everything worked, I needed an easy recompile of a modifyed tulip driver for the integrated nic which i found in linux-laptop.net. I got everything to work, sound, nic, dvd, apm, except for the modem that

Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-26 Thread Shaul Karl
hello everybody, i will buy a laptop. Perhaps it will be the HP Pavillon N 5461. Does anybody have install debian linux on this laptop ? Could you send me some links to know on which laptops i can install linux easily. Could i have yours point of view about install of linux on others

RE: debian on laptops

2001-03-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Mar-2001 joe willson wrote: i have my laptop finally running fine but there are still a few things that's annoying me. first off everyday i start up, debian keeps on reading my harddrive, i do a top and see that the program find is using like 16% of my cpu! i think this is cause by

Re: debian on laptops

2001-03-01 Thread Forrest English
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, joe willson wrote: i have my laptop finally running fine but there are still a few things that's annoying me. first off everyday i start up, debian keeps on reading my harddrive, i do a top and see that the program find is using like 16% of my cpu! i think this is

Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

1998-02-13 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around 12 Feb 1998 12:58:39 -0600 Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: Anselm == Anselm Lingnau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The current boot disks won't allow you to install over PCMCIA ethernet or off a PCMCIA SCSI bus, AFAIK, but this seems to be worked on.

Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

1998-02-12 Thread Anselm Lingnau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes: Can any happy (or unhappy) Debian-on-laptop users help me here with information? I'd say it depends a lot on the laptop in question. My own notebook is a slightly dated IPC PortaPC 5 with a 486DX33 processor, 8 MB RAM, 700 MB disk and a WD90C24A

Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

1998-02-12 Thread Mike Miller
Anselm == Anselm Lingnau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The current boot disks won't allow you to install over PCMCIA ethernet or off a PCMCIA SCSI bus, AFAIK, but this seems to be worked on. I've done several installations on laptops with a PCMCIA ethernet card. If you copy the

Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

1998-02-12 Thread Stephen Zander
Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've done several installations on laptops with a PCMCIA ethernet card. If you copy the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules packages to the laptop (with a floppy), you can install them with dpkg and do the rest with dselect and ftp. Should work for a pcmcia