Laptops For Linux?
Alex Snow
alex_snow at gmx.net
Sat Jul 31 07:58:30 EDT 2004
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I've heard good things about the dell latitudes and linux. I
installed slack on my latitude cpts and it worked fine, but that's a
slightly older model. I have heard success stories with newer models
though.
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:15:32PM -0500, Luke Davis wrote:
> Hello, Folks.
>
> My Wonderful little IBM Thinkpad 600 has finally bitten more dust than
> not, and with a degrading hard drive, a dead motherboard battery, and a
> possibly bad parallel port, I think I must sadly move on to something new.
>
> I really liked the physical design of the TP 600 (the best laptop design I
> have run into recently).
>
> I need to get a new unit, upon which I can install Linux rather painlesly.
>
> I'll need something with one PCMCIA slot and an ethernet port, or two
> PCMCIA slots, an RS232 serial port, and a parallel port, for all that
> legasy gear I still must use.
>
> I am over on linuxlaptops.org right now, but I wanted to get opinions from
> those here.
>
> I'm going to buy new for once in my life, so don't tell me about anything
> more than a year or so old.
>
> Any recomendations?
>
> Thanks
>
> Luke
>
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