Linux Laptop turnkey

Ah.

Well, I'm about to go on extended leave to finish up a degree. (Not that my
employer knows this yet....)

The idea was to *save* money via Linux. The target is $1500.

   Hardware-wise I want 500+ MHz, 128Mbytes, & 10+ Gbytes.
      As for the screen . . . I haven't played a computer game in months.

The point is to work on the thesis at home, in the study cubicle, at the
coffee shop. Thesis, thesis, thesis. (The thesis is in WordPerfect.)

I could do this with a $1000 system, and maybe I should.

Unfortunately, I want to use the thing for some hobby projects that
involve Web and more traditional software development -- maybe computer
science classes, maybe some Oracle DB development. I fear a $1000 system
would have to be retired with the thesis.

----

Now I could, of course, throw Windows _Me_ away and try to configure Linux
by hand.
    However, scrubbing a brand-new 'working' system is galling.
Nevertheless, to be rid of Windows Me I would do it -- but given the
problems people seem to have installing Linux on laptops and my schedule
crunch, now is not the time to spend a week tinkering with installing an OS
and its applications.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Joshua
> Eichorn
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 4:30 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Linux Laptop turnkey
>
>
> You can get an IBM T series laptop with caldera Linux on it.
>
> While i don't really like caldera this is an option.
>
> btw. I have a T20 running mandrake 7.2 and a Redhat Fisher (7.1) and
> it works great, you just need a 2.4 kernel and 4.02 (or a patch 3 series
> x server)
> -joshua eichorn
> Trent Shipley wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of vendors who will sell a laptop pre-loaded with some
> > species of Linux?
> >
> >
> >
> > Trent Shipley
> >
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