[COLUG] Re:Linux

[William Yang]

David Sherman wrote:
> I have decided to buy a laptop. I want to dual boot between Windows
> and Fedora Core.
> 
> 1. Does anyone an used laptop for sale?
> 
> 2. Does anyone recommended a good model?
> 
> What I want?
> 
> I prefer an empty hard drive where I would install my own copy of
> Windows XP. I would like to add a 160 GB hard drive and at least 1gb
> to 2 gb. of ram. If laptop has Vista on I. so be it but I don't want
> to share the ram with the video ram needs.

Having gotten my Dell Precision M65 laptop (Core2 Duo 1.8Ghz, 2 GB RAM,
120 GB disk) to work really well with Gentoo Linux, I'm overall
extremely pleased with the system.  I dual boot with XP Pro

The issues I've noted are:

1)  The audio up, down, and mute buttons on the keyboard don't work, but
the soft switches in Gnome do (I think this is solvable, but not a big
enough annoyance to fix, for me)

2)  The modem doesn't work (not high priority to fix, but I'll
eventually get it going when I track down some spare time) and

3)  I get an incorrect video resolution when I boot the machine docked,
if I don't watch the video startup.  I believe this to be an issue with
my KVM, though, not the laptop.

Of course, it's Gentoo, not RedHat... but I believe they now will ship
this unit with Ubuntu pre-loaded.

	-Bill
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William Yang
wyang at gcfn.net