[plug] Dell Inspiron 8100 & linux

[Christian Müller]

i installed mandrake 7.2 on one of those and it worked very well, without 
any problems at all as far as I am concerned (they have not come back to me 
yet to complain )

Christian

At 11:10 27/11/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>Hi all
>Just a quick question:
>Anybody have any experience with running linux on a Dell Inspiron 8100?
>I'm looking at buying one (ARRGGH my wallet is on fire) but don't want
>to be saddled with a win2k only laptop. I need to be able to run win9x
>network admin tools like those that came with our switch - but I don't
>want to use windows for much else.
>
>Main concerns are power management, X reliability/support, general
>stability.
>
>If anybody has better suggestions for a laptop with DV-out, DVD-ROM,
>built in e/net & modem, respectable CPU DISK & RAM, I'll listen to that
>too :-)