Re: Notebook

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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:36:05 -0500
From: Doug Welch <welch@physics.mcmaster.ca>
To: Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>
Subject: Re: Notebook


Hi Tom,

It is hard to hear that you are near-bedridden some of the time.

A good source of laptops with pre-installed Linux is:

http://www.emperorlinux.com/

I would argue that, despite the premium in cost, this is your best
route. While you may get lucky and find that Mandriva installs cleanly
on the laptop you choose, the odds are historically against that.
Laptops tend to include bleeding edge hardware that the Linux community
has not always written drivers for (when you need them).

Cheers,
Doug

Tass Mailing List wrote:
> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:11:08 -0600
> From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
> To: tass@tass-survey.org
> Subject: Notebook
>
> I am thinking of buying a notebook so I can sit in bed and run the
> telescopes.  There are days when it is hard to get out of bed.  Still,
> stuff needs to be done with the computers if I have run the night
> before.  I just want a bare bones notebook that will run well off an AC
> adaptor.  I will install Linux on it.  It needs an ethernet connection
> and not much else.  So far I have failed to find a good source for such
> a thing that does not have Windows installed on it.  I hate to pay the
> Bill tax.  It needs to be known to work with linux.  I run Mandriva
> linux.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions for a good supplier?
>
> Tom Droeg
>