Hello --

I am a Windows user, starting to learn about Linux. My daughter asked me
for help in getting a simple laptop with Linux installed, so now is my
chance to jump in further.

Does anyone know of a poll or survey indicating which laptops are most
compatible with Linux?

Thanks for any help.

Larry Mehl


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Windows should work under Linux which is a far less power-hungry operating
system.

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Lucar

L Mehl <mehl_nospam@cyvest.com> wrote:
:
: I am a Windows user, starting to learn about Linux. My daughter asked me
: for help in getting a simple laptop with Linux installed, so now is my
: chance to jump in further.
:
There is a website at UTexas (do a google search for "linux"
and "laptop") as well as other locations that have a lot of config
info on them.

If you want to do "interesting" things with it, I would
suggest nothing less than 300MHz and SRAM memory - EDO Memory is
getting hard to find (as in my Dell CPi 300MHz running FreeBSD,
which is like Linux, but from a different heritage).

And, rather than asking in a general purpose laptop group,
you can go to various Linux advocacy groups, although getting an
answer could require some patience. :-)

Bruce
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Thanks for the information and suggestions.

Larry Mehl


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Regards
Nikos

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Most modern day laptops will Linux (and the converse is true as well -Linux
will run well on most modern laptops). If you have broadband access to the
Internet, down load a copy of Knoppix or Mandrake Move or similar
'zero-footprint' Linux distributions and burn it to a CD (create iso mode).
'Zero Footprint' means that will not write anything to a hard drive and run
off the CD drive completely.
Boot a laptop under consideration with the CD in the drive and Linux will
run off the CD, without installing to the hard drive. During the boot
process Linux will detect all the hardware -disks, display driver, NIC,
wireless card, etc. This will give a chance to test drive the OS as well as
the laptop. Shutdown the machine, eject the CD and the machine is back to
its original state, running whatever OS is on the hard drive.

Try the linux CD on your desktop and see for yourself.

Regards,
Ken


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On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:36:40 -0600, Bruce Burden wrote:

probably not a good idea to ask in an _advocacy_ group - you really
_would_ have to have patience!

the OP may want to post at <comp.os.linux.portable> or maybe
<comp.os.linux.hardware>.

recent versions of Linux seem to be getting pretty good about installing
on laptops (or maybe the laptops are getting more generic). I know in the
recent past sore points have been built-in modems and ACPI
power-management. (I licked them without much problem on a Compaq I bought
the summer before last.)

the OP might also try googling on this newsgroup too which occasionally
discusses Linux.

Felmon

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 01:49:42 GMT, "Name_Suppressed"
<no_name@end_of_universe.com> wrote:




A few more CD Rom bootable vresions of Linux to try are:
SuSE, my favorite distro right now, download "SUSE LINUX for i386
Live-Eval" at
http://www.suse.com/us/private/downl...nux/index.html.
Knoppix, http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=44