[LUAU] Linux on laptops?

Rob Braun bbraun at gw.synack.net
Mon May 31 15:46:06 PDT 1999 

They are all about the same.  Slackware's pcmcia package is a
bit out of date, but so is everyone else's pretty much.

There are no real issues with linux on laptops.  Just turn
on the APM bios support when building your kernel, and the 
power management stuff is built in.  There is a linux on 
laptops page out there.  I never remember its url, but go
to linux.org and search for laptop.  You should get the linux
on laptops page.

One note, RedHat and at least the older versions of Caldera
royally screw up the pcmcia start scripts, so beware if you
build and install the pcmcia package yourself after the 
install is over.  I highly recommend doing this.  Then again,
I highly recommend building and installing most software
packages yourself.  =)  Except emacs.  You don't want to 
see what emacs does when compiling its self.

Despite my problems with Debian's leadership, it's fairly 
normal with respect to pcmcia (although screwed up in other
respects.  BTW, what's up with /etc/alternatives?), and 
Slackware is fairly descent too.

Rob

FYI, I think the general policy here is no HTML on the list.

On Monday, May 1999 at 11:23:39 gasp wrote: 
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 |         Hi.
 |         i've been lurking on the list for about a week and a half now
 | and finally decided to say "hi" and thanks for actually having a user group,
 | and 2 maybe ask a question. #8~)
 | 
 | i've lived in hawaii for almost 2 years now, and i thinkit's great that
 | there is a users group here. especially since there doesn't seem to be much
 | else goin on in the way of linux around the island.  course, i don't get 
 | out much either, so don't smack me for that one...
 | 
 | ok, my question is. i have a laptop (p2 233, 32mb of ram, keyboard, screen,
 | etc...)
 |  that is currently running slackware(4.0b3) and due to some malicious 
 | user errors (i was playing again) i need to reinstall and was wondering 
 | which distributions were supposed to "install easiest" on laptops?
 | Slackware seems to have some serious issues with my ethernet
 | card (linksys etherfast 10/100), and that is probably going
 | to be my major deciding factor, is how well it detects hardware.
 | 
 | any suggestions?
 | thanks
 | 
 | brian
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 | <x-tab>        </x-tab>i've been
 | lurking on the list for about a week and a half now<br>
 | and finally decided to say "hi" and thanks for actually having
 | a user group,<br>
 | and 2 maybe ask a question. #8~)<br>
 | <br>
 | i've lived in hawaii for almost 2 years now, and i thinkit's great
 | that<br>
 | there is a users group here. especially since there doesn't seem to be
 | much<br>
 | else goin on in the way of linux around the island.  course, i don't
 | get <br>
 | out much either, so don't smack me for that one...<br>
 | <br>
 | ok, my question is. i have a laptop (p2 233, 32mb of ram, keyboard,
 | screen, etc...)<br>
 |  that is currently running slackware(4.0b3) and due to some
 | malicious <br>
 | user errors (i was playing again) i need to reinstall and was wondering
 | <br>
 | which distributions were supposed to "install easiest" on
 | laptops?<br>
 | Slackware seems to have some serious issues with my ethernet<br>
 | card (linksys etherfast 10/100), and that is probably going<br>
 | to be my major deciding factor, is how well it detects hardware.<br>
 | <br>
 | any suggestions?<br>
 | thanks<br>
 | <br>
 | brian</font></html>
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