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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