On Fri, 02 May 2003, Craig Genner wrote: > Reading this list with interest a thought occurs to me. > > How many of you have actually installed linux on a laptop and not had to > configure more than one or two programs to get a working system. > > I'm not talking about configuring it to how you like it, I'm talking about it > just working so that you can get the work done with no fuss.
I suppose that depends on where you draw the line between "how you like it" and "get the work done" - I don't think there's a clean division. I'm writing this on a Thinkpad 570 running Debian exclusively. When I set it up, the only thing I had trouble with was Alsa, arguably not realy needed for Getting Work Done. I've never tried to get the winmodem working, as I've never had a need for it. Setup of everything else went great. I've spent a lot of time tweaking things, as this machine is a little old and with only 128M of RAM, it took a while to get a work environment that doesn't start swapping horribly. That's the machine's fault, not Debian's. Also, I always end up playing with things, tweaking things, and generally fiddling around, because that's just the way I am. Anyway, just a datapoint. -j -- Jamie Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] "... in making the freedom-for-safety swap, we haven't just dishonored the dead of 9/11. We've helped something else die too." - Nick Gillespie
