taking the plunge!

[Jeff Mings]

Before I bought my laptop, I counsulted the laptop hardware database at:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/volunteer.html
Check it out!

-Jeff



Michael Miranda wrote:

> So I decided to dedicate my laptop to linux.  I need help with two things:
> 
> 1.  I can't seem to get the right screen resolution.  I have installed RH7
> and chose 800x600 16bpp  However the screen resolution is a blocky 640x480. 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I'm using a Compaq Presario 1240,
> 64mb ram, 4.2 gig hard drive, NeoMagic 128 video card with 8 megs.
> 
> 2.  I installed the workstation package for RH7.  However, I would like to
> run the windows version of Juno so that I can download my email to my local
> machine rather than maintaining it on Juno's server.  I'll start looking
> into wine but any guidance would be great.
> 
> Mike
> 
> BTW I'm emailing via the Juno webmail interface.  However, I will use the
> Thread Board more as I see more people signing up and forums are created.
> 
> 
>