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

[Shannon Carver]

Actually, that reminds me.  Off topic here, 

But we sold an LG Laptop at work a couple of months ago which had a similar
feature, it had an offline linux based DVD player, where you could start the
Laptop as a functioning DVD Player only.

I'm not completely sure of its usefulness (Might be a good movie player on
planes due to possibly less power use than when the actual laptop is
running???!?), or just for a great portable DVD viewer, but it was a pretty
cool feature to have on the top.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of W.Kenworthy
> Sent: Thursday, 4 May 2006 4:08 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Anybody used linux on a sony vaio VGN-TX27GP/B
> 
> 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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