Notebook

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:39:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Ron Wickersham <rjw@alembic.com>
To: tass@tass-survey.org
Subject: Notebook

just saw this mention about demand for Linux installed on notebooks, and
one of the comments inside says that Dell is now selling low-end notebooks
with no operating system to save the customer money.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8382062536.html

in thinking of Tom's convenience, wouldn't it be better to remote the
desktop linux with all the terminal windows in various workspaces to the
laptop?   those accustomed to MicroSoft or Apple may not be so much into
workspaces but Tom mentioned that this is his method of using Linux.  the
other advantage of remoting the whole linux is that one can work at the
Linux desktop box and when you get too tired, retire to bed with the laptop
and all the sessions and any modification are right there, where running
a separate operating system on the laptop would involve updating your
terminal sessions when you switched to it.

and making terminals work exactly the same in different operating systems
involves extra work and sometimes you just give up on the more subtle
differences and learn to live with two types of terminals.  (for me it's
the difference between xterm and dtterm and occasionally i'm forced
to use the putty terminal).

-ron

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