On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ka-shu Wong wrote:
> I'm thinking of buying a laptop. Of course, it has to be able to run
> linux.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations of what to get, what to avoid,
> etc... ? What experiences have SLUGgers had with getting linux to run on
> laptops?
Works great on my Thinkpad 600E - Redhat, TurboLinux and SuSE have all
installed without problems - even to running X at 1024x768 in 16bpp mode.
It even co-installed with Evilware.
Couple of caveats - the inbuilt modem and sound card won't work {well,
SuSE claims to identify it, all I have to do is figure out how to
configure the sound card}, but it didn't worry me because my network
PCMCIA card has a modem and 10/100 LAN in it.
APM is somewhat dicky in its shutdown sometimes. Don't know why, and
frankly since I run on mains most of the time, I don't care.
Other than that, Linux works fine.
DaZZa
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