Alice,
I recently got a NEC SX from e-bay at 330$.
192MB Ram, 6GbHD, 14" LCD, Pentium II 366. It's a good one.
Instalation was OK, but I had to play around to get X working.
That is usually the most difficult thing to get running.
Use XF86Setup to configure it.
If it doesn't work, then yo
Check out www.linux-laptop.net. They have documentation (submitted by
users, mostly) about installing just about any distro on any model
laptop out there. It's a good site to peruse when you're looking for
info about how tricky a linux install might be on a particular model.
Alice M. Pinard
On 20-Jun-2002 Alice M. Pinard wrote:
> I'm considering trolling ebay for a cheap laptop. I'm basically interested
> in setting up a portable c++ compiler/debugger (work on code on the train
> sorta thing) so I'm mostly thinking of getting something I can slap a
> bare-bones debian system (sup
Alice,
I recently got a NEC SX from e-bay at 330$.
192MB Ram, 6GbHD, 14" LCD, Pentium II 366. It's a good one.
Instalation was OK, but I had to play around to get X working.
That is usually the most difficult thing to get running.
Use XF86Setup to configure it.
If it doesn't work, then y
Check out www.linux-laptop.net. They have documentation (submitted by
users, mostly) about installing just about any distro on any model
laptop out there. It's a good site to peruse when you're looking for
info about how tricky a linux install might be on a particular model.
Alice M. Pinard
On 20-Jun-2002 Alice M. Pinard wrote:
> I'm considering trolling ebay for a cheap laptop. I'm basically interested
> in setting up a portable c++ compiler/debugger (work on code on the train
> sorta thing) so I'm mostly thinking of getting something I can slap a
> bare-bones debian system (su
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