🚀 go-pugleaf

I have had no problems getting mandrake, suse, redhat or caldera to run on
my gateway 9300.  It is  a great machine, but I just hope I dont ever need
repairs.  They dont have the best customer support in the world.
Nevertheless, as far as I am concerned there are only 3 laptops made.  IBM,
Dell, and Gateway.

Mark




Draco Ravenloft <draco81@swbell.net> wrote in message
news:3952C087.1D56035D@swbell.net...
> 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/
> >
> > --
> > Rod Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
> > http://www.rodsbooks.com
> > Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
>