Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:53:26 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:

> Daniel Dalton:
>> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:24:31PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>>> 
>>> The only drawback is that you probably won't have that much fun
>>> running stable on it, because I don't think stable supports the
>>> graphics chip
>> 
>> I run squeeze
> 
> Then you shouldn't run into problems. The hardest part is to create a
> USB stick with d-i on it (in case you don't have an external CD/DVD
> drive). I think I used the testing installer.

If you can't avoid the Windows tax, and get Windows on it,m you might 
want to start from there (I did this with my Asus 1000HE).  There's a 
Windows program called something like Goodbye Windows, or ByeBye Windows 
or something like that that is a Linux installer. I no longer know where 
I got it, unfortunately.

-- hendrik