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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"...so you're saying that Linux now works the same on a laptop as it does on a desktop?
Haven't other OSes had this feature for, like, years? "
But laptop not everyone has the luxary such as I of owning a
whitebook which come w/ out an OS installed. If anyone, Dell should be selling their laptops w/ the choice of not having an OS installed, even if they feel like still charging the user for half of the price of the windows software along w/ the hardware.
And hardware compatibility is not a "feature"... It's a sad fact that vendors are lazy.
"...so you're saying that Linux now works the same on a laptop as it does on a desktop?
Haven't other OSes had this feature for, like, years? "
But laptop not everyone has the luxary such as I of owning a
whitebook which come w/ out an OS installed. If anyone, Dell should be selling their laptops w/ the choice of not having an OS installed, even if they feel like still charging the user for half of the price of the windows software along w/ the hardware.
And hardware compatibility is not a "feature"... It's a sad fact that vendors are lazy.