Subject: Re: Linux laptops
From: Ryan Mesler (kraylus@airmail.net)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 14:34:53 MST
hehe, that reminds me of the quote from a good friend of mine:
"the essence of advanced technology is to make something so simple a monkey
pushing a button can use it. by this definition... linux is NOT
technologically advanced"
nuff said. don't get me wrong, i love linux. really do. greatest thing that
ever happened to me (cept for that whole marriage thing back in '99 - love
you sweetie :). but if you're a casual computer user who just wants to surf
the web, play games, and/or download porn... linux isn't for you.
R.L. Mesler <Kraylus>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Singer" <jsinger@genome.wi.mit.edu>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: Linux laptops
It depends what you want and what you realize you're getting into. I'm
really happy with my TiBook and YDL but I'm not a big multimedia user and I
was prepared for a lot of headaches. (Althoughthe headaches exceeded my
expectations -- Yellow Dog people: if Apple releases new revisions for
models that you claim are supported, please update your site to reflect
that!)
The Slashdot guy wanted a laptop that would be 100% supported out of the
box. A Radeon TiBook isn't the answer for him, although it is for many of
us.
>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
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