[ale] Laptop Questions

[James P. Kinney III]

Yep! It boots up with a framebuffer. Then you run xwmconfig to set the
window manager you want. Then startx -- -fbbpp 16 worked well for me
with a riva card on framebuffer. There are about 1.5 G of stuff
compressed onto the CD! mkzftree is a great tool.

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 07:07, cfowler wrote:
> So Slack 8.1 #2 is like the SuSE eval CD?  I can boot an run a full X
> and etc right off CD?
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 23:23, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > Or better, walk in with Slackware 8.1 CD #2 and boot to a full X system!
> > Run KDE, Gnome, XFce, twm and REALLY blow away the sales weanies!!
> > 
> > On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 15:34, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> > > cfowler wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm hoping I could get some good feedback here.  I went to CompUSA to
> > > > look at Laptops.  But it is so hard determining if Linux works on them.
> > > > I'm thinking about the Toshiba Satellite system.  Can someone here give
> > > > me advise on purchasing a new laptop to run Linux on.  I'm looking to
> > > > spend around $1500+ so I get a *good* and *fast* one.  I do not want to
> > > > be locked down to winbloze.
> > > 
> > > To narrow the field, you could walk in with a TomsRootBoot disk
> > > in your pocket and see how many of them will at least boot to
> > > a bash prompt. Should give the sales staff something to think
> > > about ;-)
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > -- Joe
> > > 
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