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Re: laptop

On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:38:25PM +0100 or thereabouts, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:01:30AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote:
> > 
> > debian is the most laptop-friendly distro i've encountered.
> 
> I'd have to question that, even in my recent-Debian-convert fervour.
> Slackware comes with a whole range of kernels - low power, apm etc.
> When I installed Debian on my work laptop I had to compile a new kernel
> with APM and then compile pcmcia from source to match.  Nothing taxing
> but I wouldn't choose Debian to install on the old laptops I get hold of
> for personal use - definitely not on the 4mb RAM/170mb disk/pcmcia
> floppy machine I spooned Slackware into.

that's sad.  i've never recompiled anything just to get pcmcia to work.
they just work!


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