Re: Laptops!

[p <pplaw@pcisys.net>]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:32:10AM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> Mike, What bug?  I'm using a VAIO since my last dell died.  It makes a
> good little XTerm for ssh'ing to a heavier box for mail, etc (my Vaio is
> only a P2 with 96Megs)  The only problem with the booger is the cdrom
> and floppy are usb, makes debian installs a bit of a problem, or did
> with Debian2.2, haven't tried 3.0.
> 
> 
> Thus spake Michael P. Soulier (msoulier@storm.ca):
> 
> > Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:19:08 -0500
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Laptops!
> > X-Mailer: Mutt 1.4i (Debian Linux 2.4.16, i686)
> > From: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@storm.ca>
> > X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/246471
> > 
> > On 20/11/02 james leclair did speaketh:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > Could someone be so kind as to recommend a model and brand name of laptop I 
> > > should consider purchasing to run debian on? Thanks in advance, you guys 
> > > have been real helpful!!
> > 
> >     I wouldn't concern yourself too much with the laptop model, as much with
> > any windows-specific crap in it. You should be able to run Debian on most
> > laptops. I'm running it on my Sony VAIO with no problems, beyond the bug in
> > the S3 chipset support of X 4.1, but I'll probably upgrade to 4.2 from
> > unstable to fix that. 
> > 
> >     Mike
> > 
> > -- 
> > Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08
> > "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
> > of nerd-like effort."  -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix
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> 
>

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the 3.0 usb stiffy's are excellent!
(developers, thx.)

kthxbye.

b.

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