Laptops that Linux likes?

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 06:26:32PM -0500, Garrett Klein wrote:
> vendeta against RedHat, for some reason. I think it's because he 
> thinks that RedHat is too similar to Microsoft.

Yes, so do I, but I never stated this view here before, for fear of
launching a major flame war. Since this has specifically come up ... I
don't know if Alex's observations are the same as mine, but ...

1. I don't like how when you say "linux" almost everyone automatically
associates that with redhat. It's like when you say the word windows,
everyone associates that with microsoft (yes, I know the analogy
doesn't totally fit).

2. The internet seems to be riddled with ready to run rpms, but with
less debs, and certainly much, much less tgzs (I'm referring to
slackware tgz packages here, not to tar.gz files).

3. Discussions on this list seem to indicate that redhat configures
everything for you (cudzoo and so on), makes me think of windows
configuring everything for you. This seems to mean that people can get
away from microsoft and its practices, while still being blissfully
ignorant of how their computer does what it does for the most part.

Finally, I posted here about wanting to install fedora on one of my
play boxes a while back, but not being sure if I can do the install
with 32 mb of ram. Bill's reply was that I need 64 mb of ram for the
installer to run, and my options were to either add more ram, or to
put the hd in a different box, do the install,  and then go about
downgrading the kernel and other things to work on the lower cpu
box. Frankly, since the linux kernel still supports 386 machines, a
distro that is only tailored to install on newer systems isn't worth
wasting my time over.

Janina, Bill, or anyone else who may want to comment on this, don't
expect me to respond, since I have no interest in keeping this
discussion going.

Greg


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