[SATLUG] which laptop to buy?

[Todd]

TROLL???   You got a lot of nerve!!!! In case you didn't know Apple OSX Is
Unix and you can program  in C C++ and many other languages.  Plus SUSE and
Yellow dog Linux can be loaded on as well.  So take your stinking WINTEL
machine and go back to the hole you came from!!


On 8/5/02 5:20 PM, "Daniel DiPaolo" <ddipaolo at strike.homelinux.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 17:03, Todd wrote:
>> Get an Apple.  OS 10.2 is everything you need.
> 
> *sniff* *sniff*  What's that smell?  OH!  It's a TROLL!  Hi troll, go
> back to your cave.
> 
> 
> Anyway, to get back ON TOPIC, I'll say this about Linux and laptops.  My
> Gateway Solo 1450SE that I just got in late May/early June actually
> works quite well with Linux, once I coaxed it a bit.  It's a nice little
> machine for a nice little price (around $1,000), and it just has one or
> two minor niggles in getting X to display 24-bit color and getting ACPI
> stuff to work (so the fan doesn't run all the time).
> 
> BTW, for those interested, it was the I830M chipset in the laptop that
> makes X a bit of a bitch to get to work right.  So, if you want things
> to work out of the box, avoid those for now :)