Re: [aclug-L] Help

[Nate Bargmann <ka0rny@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Goerzen wrote:

> http://www.linuxpress.com/
>    Debian manual, if you use Debian.

I just checked out their site and appears they have a nice product.  My
question, is this the "official" published version of Debian?  According
to their page they contirbute part of their sales price back to the
Debian project, so I guess a better question is, is this the company
contracted by the Debian project to provide the manual in print and the
distribution on CD-ROM for Debian? (confused yet?)

My second question.  Does anyone know where one can purchase an older
laptop (pre-owned most likely) known to support Linux, or the upcoming
Debian 2.1 in particular, well at a reasonable price.  I'm looking for
something in the Pentium 90 to 166 MHz range mostly for taking back to
the farm with me on weekends for checking email and hacking.  I
definitely want a color display that XFree is able to support at a
minimum of 800x600 @ 64k colors (16 bpp).  Sound would be nice, but not
mandatory along with support for an external keyboard, mouse, and of
course monitor (am I asking too much?).  PCMCIA would probably be very
nice as I wouldn't have to worry about getting a proprietary internal
33.6 kbps (minimum) modem or ethernet card.

It seems the more I investigate this area, the more confused I get and
Linux distribution support for various laptop models seems to vary
widely (due mostly to the laptop manufacturers).

Thanks,

- Nate >>

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