Subject: RE: Linux laptops
From: will taggart (annapaxis@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 10:57:30 MST
YDL out of the box is incomplete for a new TiBook. The first thing that you
have to do with a new powerbook plus YDL is get new kernel (BenH)! I have a
friend that has about 5 to 7 linux boxes (mostly like 100 and 233mhz ibm's
and clones) and he gets almost everything to work with mandrake...and I am
stuck with a 550mhz powerhouse laptop that I can't listen to mp3z on. or get
nmap for. and the modem? yuck. and I just don't have the knowledge or skill
to figure out the ati mobility radeon card myself. don't get me wrong, I
really enjoy linux, and YDL, and look forward to using it more as the device
support gets better. until then I am going to buy a GNU-darwin distribution
so I can play with things that work today.
will taggart
>From: "Justin Christopher" <jchristopher@takenote.net>
>Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
>Subject: RE: Linux laptops
>Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 09:56:26 -0800
>
>How can a setup where sound doesn't work (IceBook, YDL 2.1) be the "most
>favored combination"? That's dumb. Even if you're savvy enough to be able
>to
>get Ben's iBook kernel, it STILL doesn't work in KDE.
>
>I've used RedHat 7.2 on a Dell laptop and everything just WORKED, which is
>definitely not the case with Yellow Dog / PPC.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nathan r. hruby [mailto:nhruby@arches.uga.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 9:30 AM
>To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>Subject: Linux laptops
>
>
>
>Just in case anyone didn't see this, there was an Ask Slashdot question
>about what laptop to get if'n you're wanting to run linux. [Ti|Ice]Book +
>YDl was one of the most favored combonations. Go YDL! I use YDL on my
>Pismo and have actually started using it in preference to my Dell 420 at
>home and Sawtooth at work.
>
>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/06/0033236
>
>-n
>--
>......
>nathan hruby - nhruby@arches.uga.edu
>computer support specialist
>department of drama and theatre
>http://www.drama.uga.edu/
>......
>
>
William C. Taggart
Graduate Student, University of Arkansas
Department of Anthropology
King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies
annapaxis@hotmail.com
http://comp.uark.edu/~wtaggar
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