[plug] Anybody used linux on a sony vaio VGN-TX27GP/B

[W.Kenworthy]

Just picked it up - couldnt resist and booted it immediately using a
gentoo 2006.0 livecd.  Seems everything is pretty standard.  One
interesting point is this thing can play CD's without being booted up -
does it by an embedded linux system! There is a list of linux files
involved in the manual.  Have to see if I can keep it when I
repartition.

Nothing like a 'new' toy - I know what I am doing tonight ... "death to
windoze!"

Billk



On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 16:05 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> It will be delivered Friday (I hope!).  Waiting for the dell to fully
> keel over.  Its so slow running on one 512 sodimm compared to the 1G (2
> sodimm) I was using before the fault developed - cant wait!
> 
> BillK
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 08:39 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> > W.Kenworthy wrote:
> > > Anybody used linux on a sony vaio VGN-TX27GP/B.  Looks mostly standard
> > > stuff, and I like the small size (I need portability more than grunt
> > > these days!)
> > > 
> > 
> > Did you end up looking at this machine seriously?
> > I have one here for a few days that belongs to a friend and I love it, thinking of getting one 
> > myself but I'm going to spend a day or two beating it with linux first to check its various bits.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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