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Re: SMALLEST laptop/palmtop to buy for Linux?

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From: Secoh..
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:00
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I doth belive that Panasonic is coming out with a new Palmtop for you.  It
has a good Pentium processor (133 or above, I forget).  Color screen. 
Touch screen.  It looks just like a color Newton MP2000, but the screen is
bigger.  It looks well designed, and runs WBlows 95, so it should run
Linux.  

me @ my humble abode <sorin@ebij.com> wrote in article
<34efa514.3479863@nnrp.gol.com>...
> On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 20:40:39 GMT, throopw@sheol.org (Wayne Throop) wrote:
> 
> >I'm aware of the Libretto models, and the PC110, and others in the
> >very-very-small-notebook or borderline-palmtop category.  But
> >appropriate models of those aren't totally satsifying to my
> >overcritical eye, so I'm wondering about alternatives. 
> 
> How come?  I had RedHat 4.2 running problem free on my 110, and I'm a
real
> newbee. EVERYTHING worked as advertized - see http://toy.cabi.net for a
few
> good starting links. (Ok, there was a problem, it didn't like the 15MB
> miniflash on which I had WFW311, it gave me all kinds of "time out" and
"drive
> not ready" errors. I guess the problems could have been fixed, but as I
said,
> I am a real newbee.)
> 
> >Especially interesting is the "IP docking" question.  Any experience
> >with PC110 or Libretto used remotely as a highly portable plug-in
> >computing brick from an X terminal would be of interest to me. 
> 
> Have a look at the links from the URL above. You'll see someone had the
110
> "NFS root" through a radio LAN card.
> 
> 
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From: "Secoh.." <kill@u.com>
Subject: Re: SMALLEST laptop/palmtop to buy for Linux?
Date: 1998/02/25
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