Debian, laptops, and X
I'm looking at buying a pair of laptops which will need to dual-boot
Windows and Debian.
I'm not concerned that they be Pentium IV 600 Ghz machines or be huge
number-crunchers, but I would like them to run X enough that I can use
emacs and font-lock mode, netscape (with something more that 256 colors)
... the standard stuff.
1) Are there laptops which aren't compatible with linux and Debian?
2) I understand that laptop video chipsets are wacky. Which ones work?
3) Are there other compatability issues I should be watching for? I've
never touched anything with a PCMCIA card in it ...
Will
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