Linked by Will Gunadi on Tue 5th Apr 2005 14:11 UTC
Today, there is no shortage of reviews on Linux on the Desktop, but I think we can benefit from more "Laptopized-Linux" experiences. As laptops keep dropping in price and increasing in terms of computing power, they really make a nice platform even for cpu intensive applications such as sofware development, desktop publishing, web design, etc. And as you will see in this article, installing Linux on a laptop is not as hairy as you may think.
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I will agree with the author about linux on a laptop when he says its come a long way as compared to a few years ago. I don't mean in the application sense, because over time most applications improve, so I think thats a moot point. I'm talking about installation and set up. I have an old laptop, 233mhz 92megs ram 16 bit NIC, and install slack on it. Back in the day I had to download the pcmcia-cs package through windows, then go into linux, mount the win partition, copy the file over, extract, recompile, install.
Nowadays that package comes with most distros, I'm not even sure if its still needed anymore with the 2.6 kernels. But when I install slack now, it pretty much just detects the network card and all is good. Sound takes some reconfiguring, but it could be the hardware on the laptop, but it does work once its configured.
So yeah, I agree, setting up linux on the laptop has improved quite a bit from what I seen.