> Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX? I recently bought a laptop for my husband and he's very happy with it; it came pre-loaded with RedHat but there's been no problem tossing Debian on. I got it for his birthday :) > Could you please tell me the exact type of your laptop + how you have solved > problems. > > I am particularly interested in laptops of the higher class: > > 6-15 GB HD 18 Gb :D :D :D but smaller drives were available.
> 64-128 MB RAM 256 Mb > USB, serial, parallel He hasn't tried serial, parallel yet but he put a USB wheelmouse on. > floppy 'course! (builtin) > DVD instead of CD Yup - 6x even. > 14" color They offered that size but I got the 15.1" monitor for him. > external wheel mouse possible not sure he actually got the wheel itself working yet though - I have to ask him. > sound ESS maestro, no hitches so far. > modem and/or Ethernet included Has a Lucent winmodem but it came with a copy of the "binary driver" already in the RH boot sequence. Jim ignores it. (Should work after a fashion, tho - this is what a lot of the linmodems gang are applying themselves towards.) They offer a very nice modem+10/100 Linksys card - the Etherfast with no dongle and builtin lights. Ok, since I didn't mention a brand yet, I'm just gonna note, I bought it on employee discount from Tuxtops. You probably want to look at the whole product line though, as you can get a DVD even on the "value" model if you want. I'll tack in since I know it will matter to you, yes, we do ship internationally. And just to nail the obvious Q before it becomes an FAQ: "preloaded, cool, when ya gonna do Debian?" ... We're working on it! Our normal customers aren't already into Linux so it has to be a nice polished job. You can join our announce list if you want to hear about it when it rolls. See http://www.tuxtops.com for all the specs and like that. -* Heather Stern -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- speaking from home. *-
