Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LXX Saturday September 21, 2019

2019-09-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
Boston Linux Installfest LXX When: Saturday September 21, 2019, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061 2 Amherst St, Cambridge http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm There is usually sufficient free parking in the E-51 parking lot. What you need to bring: Your

Recent Laptop experiences sought

2019-09-14 Thread Mark Ellison
Hi- As appropriate, please respond with your recent laptop experience... I have been using the Lenovo Thinkpad line of laptops with Fedora Linux. Currently, have a short list of laptops- the Lenovo Thinkpad T490 and the HP ProBook, Zbook or Elite with the i7 4-core 8M cache. Screen should be no

Re: Recent Laptop experiences sought

2019-09-14 Thread Curt Howland
On 9/14/19, Mark Ellison wrote: > Hi- > > As appropriate, please respond with your recent laptop experience... I use a Dell 6430 at work, and everything works with Debian. It's been a solid workhorse. My Mom is now using a 6430 since her machine flaked out and I knew this would work. For myself

Re: Recent Laptop experiences sought

2019-09-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
I have a Dell inspiron 13 5378. This is a 13" touchscreen with an SSD. and dual core I7. My wife has an Asus. She broke her screen the first day we bought it at Microcenter, and it took a very long time for them to get the laptop repaired. In contrast, I had a Lenovo when I worked for Red Hat, and

Re: Recent Laptop experiences sought

2019-09-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
For many years I badmouthed Dells because they used to not run Linux very well. But, in the past several years they have become much much better. I had a great Lenovo when I worked at IBM, but it weighed a ton. On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 1:25 PM Curt Howland wrote: > On 9/14/19, Mark Ellison wrote

Re: Recent Laptop experiences sought

2019-09-14 Thread Peter Petrakis
You can pickup Thinkpad x220 cheap on ebay with 2/4 core i7 processor and max 16G DRAM + SSD for under $250. Just picked one up for the wife for $179. After that I wouldn't bother with anything less than a P50. They can be had for under $1K and are absolute beasts. Tons of ram capacity, multiple h

Re: Recent Laptop experiences sought

2019-09-14 Thread Tom Buskey
I tend to use my laptop in one place so I don't really use the battery. I want chrome, xterminals and ssh to my servers. I had T61p laptops with 8GB and SSD for a long time until the power supplies got flakey. I upgraded to a T420s from ebay ($100ish) plugged the SSD from the T61p and just kept r

Re: Recent Laptop experiences sought

2019-09-14 Thread Peter Petrakis
16GB ram is my minimum for a Linux desktop. 8GB was fine before sandbox tabbed browsing came along but today that's where the bulk of the memory is allocated. It works but it feels cramped sometimes. KDE is leaner than gnome these days believe it or not. I also don't need a registry editor or "twea