recommendation for laptop with Linux

[Brian Densmore]

Yeah but the nice thing about getting XP with the laptop is you.
can immediately load knoppix, attach a dvd burner and burn XP onto 
the DVD. Then you can load Linux and reverse engineer XP to look for
GPL infractions. Not to mention reverse engineer the sound, video
and networking drivers for use in Linux. Since you can say you never 
accepted the click thru license and never registered it. You are free
to reverse engineer under fair use rights and are not constrained by
an illegal/immoral-forced-forfeiture-of-your-fair-use-rights to a 
copyrighted product you purchased. ;')

It would be worth it just to reverse engineer the sound driver.

Certainly this laptop is not going to win any awards, but it might
make a useful portable. The problem is of course, will Linux run
on this and be able to make use of the various devices. I think the 
wi-fi is a nice feature.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Herrmann 
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 10:22 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: recommendation for laptop with Linux
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> Gigabit Ethernet, though.  I wonder if the 802.11b card is PCI?  And 
> could you get the sound to work in Linux?  That's always the tricky 
> part.  That, and you have to buy WinXP.  :-P
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> Thanks,
> Jim
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> Brian Kelsay wrote:
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> >Found it.  But it only has 128MB of ram and it's shared with 
> video.  Definitely will need an immediate upgrade to 256 or 
> 512MB.  Unless you run a light-weight window manager.
> >http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3163026
&cat=3951&type=19&dept=3944&path=0%3A3944%3A3951#long_descr
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>Brian Kelsay
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>>>>"Brian Kelsay" <> 08/20/04 12:59PM >>>
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>You have a link to a $600 Walmart laptop?  Is it crippled or something?  Cyrix processor?
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>Brian Kelsay
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>>>>"Brian Densmore" <> 08/20/04 12:32PM >>>
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>If you've looked at Monitor Depot. Then you might want to consider the 
>Walmart $600 laptop. You'd get a new laptop in the same price range
>as Monitor Depot. Those IBM laptops they have are, IMHO, way overpriced.
>But they do refurbish them and guarantee them, IIRC. the only problem
>with the Wal-Mart laptop is you probably couldn't test it first with 
>Knoppix.
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