Re: laptop advice

[Seth R Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu>]

On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:57:22PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> Hi there,
> I am thinking of buying a laptop, probably second hand, with the
> intention of running linux only. Does anyone have any experience with
> installing and using linux on laptops? Can anyone recommend any
> particular laptop brands/models for running linux? What can I do to make
> sure that any laptop that I buy will be useable with linux? (for
> example: tests I can run on the laptop while in the shop, useful tools -
> tomsrtbt?, etc...)

Matthew, if I recall correctly, there is even a debian-laptop mailing list!
:)

See if you can buy the thing without an OS, since that should save roughly
$190 on Win98... :)

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