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Re: Linux Help Needed [message #47157 is a reply to message #47134]

Fri, 27 January 2006 09:19

Karl Schultz
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Registered: October 1999

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On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:22:01 -0700, David Fanning wrote:

> Sid writes:
>
>> I am no expert by a long shot, but have you tried Mandriva? I use 10.1
>> and haven't had problems with it in the last year, on desktops or
>> laptops.....
>
> Uh, no. I only have 24 hours in a day. I can't afford to
> download more than 5 or 6 flavors of LINUX. :-)
>
> By the way, I am *really* getting into this. If I wanted
> to buy a new laptop with LINUX installed and ready to go,
> what would you LIXUX users recommend? I need a pretty
> powerful machine for a new proposed project.

I really don't know how much luck you'll have finding a laptop with just
LINUX on it. I'm sure that there are some out there, but I also think
that it is safe to say that your choices in the hardware would be limited.

I ended up getting a Toshiba Satellite with Win XP on it. The first thing
I did when I got it was to boot it with Knoppix, live off the CD.
Knoppix, and other recent distros, have a tool that will let you shrink an
NTFS partition in place without reformatting the drive. This tool let me
split the internal hard disk in half. I think I also made a small (2GB)
FAT partition so I have some disk space shared between LINUX and
Windows. LINUX doesn't *write* to NTFS very well these days.

I then installed Debian on the second half and went ahead and put the GRUB
boot loader on. That lets me select Win or LINUX at power on time. I
almost always just close the lid to hiberate Windows, so I don't see the
GRUB menu very much. It works well.

I think it is probably pretty important to get the features you need/want
in a laptop purchase and then worry about adding LINUX later. There are
websites out there that describe how various LINUX distros work on many
laptops. They might be worth checking as you narrow down your choices.

Good luck,

Karl

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		Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Mon, 23 January 2006 20:17
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Fri, 27 January 2006 14:00
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: swisswuff on Sat, 28 January 2006 09:51
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		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Benjamin Hornberger on Fri, 27 January 2006 11:35
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Michael Wallace on Fri, 27 January 2006 11:03
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Fri, 27 January 2006 09:58
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Karl Schultz on Fri, 27 January 2006 09:19
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Ken Mankoff on Fri, 27 January 2006 07:50
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: K. Bowman on Fri, 27 January 2006 07:27
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		Re: Linux Help Needed By: K. Bowman on Thu, 26 January 2006 12:57
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Thu, 26 January 2006 11:22
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		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Sid[1] on Thu, 26 January 2006 11:12
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Foldy Lajos on Sat, 28 January 2006 02:00
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 27 January 2006 18:25

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