[KLUG Members] Re: RH 7.3...two more cents worth

[Vernon Jenewein]

This is why I buy Toshiba for Linux notebooks -- at least until another
vendor supports Linux better.  IBM does NOT seem to be supporting Linux
on the desktop well, and the notebook is no exception (although they are
having Windows troubles with their notebooks too).

As far as the Toshiba Satellite 5000-series, I saw one running Linux
_perfectly_ just the other week.  It pays to read the HOWTOs out there
to deal with the BIOS-less crap that Microsoft is pushing around.  God
my year-old Satellite 2805-S402 seems old -- I should have waited just a
few months but NO, I had to have the very first model with the very
first nVidia GeForce2 Go Mobile chip.  ;-P

-- Bryan


At the Lycoris/LX web site   www.lycoris.org  they have a fully loaded Linux
lapt top for something like $799.  I didn't check to see if it is Toshiba or
not.. Now that's kind of nice. Buying a laptop already loaded with your
Linux OS.
And, since Lycoris is selling it, there is a very good chance that all
things work the way they are supposed to on it "as is" without much further
tweaking.

Cheers!

Vernon Jenewein
jenefarm@i2k.com