Re: Why Linux on a Laptop?
Just my 2p..
I use Linux on my laptop for many reasons, but primarily because it
supports what I do. I know from experience that trying to run Apache,
PHP, and MySQL/PostgreSQL on Windows is a frustrating (not to mention
slow) experience.
My particular laptop (Toshiba Satellite 4030) is completely supported
out of the box by Linux, including the MPEG accelerated graphics
(mmmm... VCD)
So, I get my nice desktop/office (KDE2, et al), my web development
(apache, etc) my C/C++ programming stuff (GCC, KDevelop, KStudio, GTK+
the list goes on)
All in one place, which means that I can lug my laptop to the LUG, my
mates house, the pub, or whereever I need to be, and have my entire
computing environment, complete and working, ANYWHERE I happen to be.
As it happens, I have a Visor Deluxe connected via USB to my laptop, so
for PDA stuff I use that and sync it when I get the ol' notebook out.
So, in short, my laptop is far more than an overgrown PDA. It's my
desktop, development, server, web-terminal, email reading machine. And
best of all, it all works. First time, everytime. Oh, and bringing it
out of sleep by KLaptop is lovely too :)
Craig
On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 10:59, Richard Watson wrote:
> On Friday 30 November 2001 10:32, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:39:20AM -0500, Alec wrote:
> > > I'm wondering what everyone's motivation is for using Linux on a laptop
> > > instead of Cygwin + Windows.
> >
> > Because Windows doesn't have any of the utilities I need. I use vi, C,
> > php, postgres, apache, make, bash, X, latex, mpg123 (etc. etc. etc.) for my
> > day to day work and none of them are available on Windows.
>
> What a load of rubbish.
>
> Most (if not all) of those are available on windows and have been for some
> time. That's the beauty of open source - if it's not available on your
> platform you can just recompile it.
>
> The real reason to use linux on a laptop is purely because it is the best
> solution for those of us who want maximum performance, flexibility and
> stability from whichever machine we use. Why else?
>
> The real question should be "Why use Windows on a Laptop" and generally the
> answer is "Because it was there when I bought it".
>
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> Richard Watson
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Craig Andrews
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