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Re: Linux Help Needed [message #47243 is a reply to message #47173]

Fri, 27 January 2006 17:32

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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

> Sid writes:

> 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.

Installing Linux is usually trivial these days. I'd shop for the
laptop you want (I hear good things about the new Core Due systems),
with the features you want, and then head to:

http://www.linux-laptop.net/

to see if there any compatibility issues (sound cards are common). Mostly
things do indeed just work.

The reason IDL complains is that it needs an old, old version of the C
library and other libs, which most distros offer as a "compatibility"
library install. You can blame RSI for this, building against what is
essentially a 4 year old library set (not that it doesn't work).

If the Macbook Pro's are as nice as they seem to be, getting one of
those, and dual-booting linux/OSX would seem a rather nice solution.
Redhat recently officially announced support for Mac Intel. It would
be interesting to see how much Linux/IDL 6.2 cleans up OSX/IDL 6.2
Rosetta (assuming it runs), and then repeat the comparison when they
finally compile IDL for OSX/Intel later this year (hopefully).

I have friends in the laptop market now, and no clear RSI statement on
their commitment to support this new architecture is unsettling to
them. "We'll look into and get back to you" is less than
confidence-inspiring.

JD

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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
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: jeyadev on Fri, 27 January 2006 15:17
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: jeyadev on Fri, 27 January 2006 13:22
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: savoie on Fri, 27 January 2006 12:18
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Michael Wallace on Fri, 27 January 2006 12:05
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Greg Hennessy on Fri, 27 January 2006 11:47
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: JD Smith on Fri, 27 January 2006 17:55
		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
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Nigel Wade on Fri, 27 January 2006 01:45
		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
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: JD Smith on Fri, 27 January 2006 17:32
		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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