RE: [aclug-L] Laptop Suggestions?

[John Alexander <john.alexander@xxxxxxx>]

I recently installed RH 5.1 on a Dell Latitude 4100, over a PCMCIA network card 
via NFS hosted on my Digital Alpha. The only variation from a standard RH 
installation was the fact that I had to load a supplemental diskette, and use 
pcmcia.gz for building the boot diskette (or is that root?) instead of, say, 
color.gz. Granted this is only a 486/100 w/ 20MB RAM, 540MB HD, with a 640x480 
screen, but the price was right, and it MORE than fills it's role as a portable 
packet sniffer/protocal analyzer. Since the HD is so small, I only have base, 
network, X, and emacs installed, with some other network analysis software that 
I pulled off the 'net. Other than the fact that I don't have enough HD space to 
load EVERYTHING, it's great. You might check 
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ for some pretty good info, 
and as a jumping off point in getting your favorite flavor on whatever you may 
find.

Good Luck!
JA
PS: What time does the sale start?

-----Original Message-----
From:   Nate Bargmann [SMTP:ka0rny@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:   Thursday, March 11, 1999 6:35 AM
To:     Air Cap Linux Users Group
Subject:        [aclug-L] Laptop Suggestions?

I heard on the radio last night that there will be another computer sale
show at the Red Coach Inn at I-135 and 53rd St. North this coming
Saturday.  I'm in the market for the following:

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).

If anyone on the list has a suggestion on a particular model to look
for, or stay away from, I would appreciate it.  Also, if you're running
a Linux distro on a laptop, what problems and difficulties have you
encountered?  What went well?

Thanks,

- Nate >>

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