🚀 go-pugleaf

Interesting... Mayhaps they just know how to make laptops and not desktop?

oh well.....  I'll look into those since they are ones I can get preinstalled with linux
(my biggest concern...  compatibility I never was worried about... it was not wanting to
pay the additional 100+ bucks for Winderz32)

Rod Smith wrote:

> In article <3951AD01.987FA14C@swbell.net>,
>         Draco Ravenloft <draco81@swbell.net> writes:
> > I hadn't noticed your last comment about Compaq.... and well.   Those things don't
> > exist to me.  EVERY compaq I've ever messed with was a POS. It would crash everytime
> > I sneezed (I'm only BARELY exaggerating this BTW) and were 1 - 2 THOUSAND dollars
> > more expensive than what i could build a better system for myself (this was
> > factoring in back in the day when they would say the total value of preinstalled
> > software).  I have the same problem with Gateway
>
> FWIW, I've been happy with Linux's performance on my Compaq Presario
> 1200-XL106 notebook. This thing does use some fairly bleeding-edge
> technology, but there are drivers for all of it under Linux. I've had
> no reliability problems under Linux. (Win98, OTOH, frequently locks up
> when returning from sleep mode.) It uses an AMD K6-2 CPU. For details,
> check my web page on it:
>
> http://www.rodsbooks.com/presario/
>
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> Rod Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
> Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration