[plug] Advice needed for laptop

[Shayne O'Neill]

apt-get install discover

discover makes magic happen.

Just found it the other day. one of those "Baaaaby where have you BEEN all
my life?" moments.

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Shayne O'Neill. Indymedia. Fun.
http://www.perthimc.asn.au

On 16 May 2004, Tim Bowden wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 10:17, Richard Meyer wrote:
> >
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> OK, so I'm a little late for this thread, but here goes anyway ;-)
> >
> > Hi guys, I'm in the market for a decent laptop.
> >
> > I've looked through linuxlaptop.com, but there doesn't seem to be any
> > discussion about how well particular lappies work with linux.
> > Linuxlaptop.org and .net are worse than useless, just pushing hosting and
> > domain names.
> >
> > I have my eye on the Toshiba A10 at the moment (the price is nearly right)
> > - I would like any feedback from people who have lappies working with linux
> > as to what they have, how well it works, and whether they'd buy it again in
> > hindsight. Any comments on the A10 would also be helpful. The pedlar
> > (salesman) at the Toshiba place is quite happy that I take in a Knoppix CD
> > and try it.
> >
> I picked up a Tosh A10 Q3 last year and it works a treat.  Knoppix makes
> it sit up and do all the tricks.  I installed debian which was a bugger-
> The debian installer is sooo old it didn't want to know about the
> network card but it got sorted in the end (thanks again Nick).  I have a
> few niggling issues with the debian install (video & sound mainly) that
> I haven't had time to look at properly but Knoppix didn't have any
> problems so it's probably just a kernel or config issue.  Haven't looked
> at 3d video- but that's often a problem no matter what you have.
>
> If you're price shopping (who doesn't?) try computercybershop.com.au.  I
> have delt with them three or four times without any problems.  They seem
> to know what they are doing when it comes to laptops.
>
> > Thanks
> > RichardM
> >
> >
> No problem,
>
> Tim Bowden
>
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