[lug] Linux on notebooks

[TrentJarvi]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Wayde Allen wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Ken Weinert wrote:
> 
> > I might be in the market for a notebook and wondered if one of you kind
> > souls might point me in the direction of a resource that would let me
> > know which ones are compatible.
> 
> One place to check is <http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html>. 
> 
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)
> 
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Here is what I used.  <http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/>
Beware of braindead 'winmodem' modems and avoid deleting ~192 meg partitions used for sleep mode.  Most laptops work.  The interesting task is finding a laptop without the microsoft office/works tax.  Journaling file systems (raiser or ext3) are nice for laptops that are powercycled frequently.

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Trent Jarvi
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