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Article #307Re: SMALLEST laptop/palmtop to buy for Linux?
From: Secoh..
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:00
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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