I do not tout one computer maker over another, as I build my of
company's servers. But when I have to order laptops, the Dell Inspiron
4000 has been most excellent; with the exception of mine almost being
hurled across the hotel room when Mind Flayers sucked the brain out of a
most excellent character, resulting in his immediate death, while I was
playing, "Nethack." If you are hardware literate, the Dell folks will do
what you like. Even if you use Debian or SuSE linux vice Redhat. =)
Logan the SuSE user.
On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 20:23, Michael J. Hoffman wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 11:30, Carson Wilcox wrote:
> > Thanks I appreciate the info, I had almost decided to
> > go that way..
> >
> > Carson
> > --- Derek Glidden <dglidden@illusionary.com> wrote:
> > Linux on Toshiba laptops?
> > >
> > > Older models worked great, newer models are
> > > something to avoid.
>
> Sorry I apparently missed the beginning of this... what was the reason
> *not* to use a Dell? Dell machines are for the most part loaded with
> very standard chipsets and circuits... and Linux works well on most of
> the current breed of Dell laptops (with the possible exception of the
> ultrthin "blade" type that I can't claim experience with).
>
> Most of the Dell hardware is recognized automatically; possibly some of
> the older models with NeoMagic chips could give you an issue but the
> newer stuff is mostly ATI and now nVidia.
>
> Or perhaps you wanted it to *ship* with Linux? Well we can't have
> everything (yet) :-)
>
> MH++
>
>
>
-- 9:30pm up 9 days, 20:42, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.09, 0.07 Peanut Blossoms 4 cups sugar 16 tbsp. milk 4 cups brown sugar 4 tsp. vanilla 4 cups shortening 14 cups flour 8 eggs 4 tsp. soda 4 cups peanut butter 4 tsp. salt Shape dough into balls. Roll in sugar and bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 375 F. for 10-12 minutes. Immediately top each cookie with a Hershey's kiss or star pressing down firmly to crack cookie. Makes a hell of a lot.
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