Laptop advice 3912
On 21 Jun 2005 06:35:45 -0700, synex staggered into the Black Sun and said: easy, but it's considered good manners to include some context from previous articles when you post to Usenet. synex...
Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner
I'm also looking into buying a Linux box, and starting with a laptop would allow me flexibility to take it with me when, say, visiting my elderly mother.
Years ago, I got to know CP-M and Concurrent CP-M (and met Apple's own OS and MS--PC-DOS); I then spent a year getting to know and like BSD Unix (and met Primos and Primix); since then I have *mainly* used Unix variants, and largely steered clear of the NT desktop that was doing the rounds in these parts; I am lumbered with an XP desktop for now, but I certainly don't want to buy my own.
When I first looked into Linux some years ago, Debian seemed much more my thing than Red Hat.
I get the impression that Red Hat has "moved my way" by having less stuff switched on by default.
Debian remains at the top of my list, but should it be displaced by Ubuntu? Or would Ubuntu underpinnings plus some Debian additions make more sense still?
July's "What Laptop" has an article about Linux.
It also has an advertisement feature by IPC Multimedia covering several machines:
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A search for IPC boxen draws a blank.
Any thoughts (particularly about the first four or so of those IPC machines, and appropriate supplier(s) for Liverpool, England)?
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