Bill, I got one these for work yesterday and now have a happy Debian system. The only issue I know of and haven't tried to get working yet is that Potato does not have support for the audio chipset - Maestro 3 - and a few months ago on a previous model I could not get sound working. I'm kinda hoping this has changed, I'll find out soon enough.
As you've emailed both debian-laptop and SLUG I'm assuming you're in Sydney. On Saturday, 10th March (ie: tomorrow) we're holding an install fest, I'd recommend coming along - details are at http://www.slug.org.au/ . One of the benefits of this will be having many able hands around. I brought my partly functional C600 to the Debian stand at Linux Expo last night and while I was evangelising Debian to hapless passer-by's a few people jumped on my laptop and finished tweaking XFree 4 and other various things I hadn't got around to making work properly. Ta guys! Thus spake Bill Shui ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi there, > I am thinking of buying a laptop for work/uni, etc. > I came across the Dell Latitude C600 series. > > With some modification such as 256MB RAM, PIII850, 20GB IDE HDD, > etc. > > I was just wandering if anyone has bought a Dell laptop similar to the > spec above. If so, how smooth does debian potato run on these machines? > > Your reply would be much appreciated. > > cheers. > Bill > -- > Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, > very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. > -- Dick Brandon > --------------------------------------------- > Bill Shui Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bioinformatics Programmer > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- Cheers, Craige.
