I just bought a dell inspiron 5000, with the svga (1400x1050) 15" screen. I love it, and I have never really liked laptops before. I still prefer my desktop CRT for video quality, but this is a NICE screen. Debian installed on it fine, I only ran into some problems getting the network interface (a 3com 3c575) to work during the installiation. I had to do a lot of putzing with modules by hand. Other than that, no problems. I installed xfree4.0.1 from the binaries, I even watched a few DVD's in linux on it.
-Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krzys Majewski wrote: > > It's very hard to guess. If you want silence, you live in a small > > apartment and you have some extra cash, buy a laptop and you'll get in love > > with it (but check the hardware, do not get a winmodem with it!). > > > > This is very interesting! I hadn't considered laptops but now I will. > Does anyone else have experience with running linux on a laptop? > Can I hook up my parallel-port ZIP drive to a laptop? > Can I hook up my monitor? My keyboard? My mouse? > If I keep the laptop plugged in the whole time is the battery simply > ignored, or does it slowly drain or leak acid over the years? Note I > have no intention of using this putative laptop anywhere other than my > desk, but it would be really exciting to have one! Last I checked the > displays were getting pretty good too, so maybe I could junk my monitor > while I'm at it. What are some good display technologies, anyone have > experience sitting up all night staring at an lcd screen? Can you still see? > -chris > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
