OT: UNIX on Windows

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>When asked his whereabouts on Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:50:25PM -0800,
>Bill Campbell took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
>> 
>> Why waste a good ThinkPad on Windows.  SuSE run great on it!  Then you
>> don't need fake Unix.
>
>Don't get me wrong...I love linux.  But on a -laptop- I've heard more
>troubles with getting linux running all devices properly, getting
>bootstrapped, etc.  Never done it myself, and maybe newer installs are
>fine, but I'm not sure I'd want to bother.

I've been running Linux on a variety of laptops, mostly IBM ThinkPads, for
the last seven years.  The one I'm typing this on is a five year old
ThinkPad 600 that's run Caldera OpenLinux 1.3, OpenLinux 2.3, eDesktop 2.4,
SuSE 8.1, 8,2, 9.0, and now 9.2.  I'm connected to our in-house wi-fi
network with a USB 802.11b.  If I remember correctly, I had this laptop
working as an Internet hub in the dorms at at least one SCO Forum with a
Ricochet wireless modem which JP and others were using with their laptops
running Windows or OpenServer (or perhaps that was my previous
ThinkPad 750).

My first Linux installs on a laptop were on a Toshiba with no CD, and that
was a bit tricky.  I had to tweak the PCMCIA configuration files during a
floppy install to get it to recognize a newer 3com NIC so I could do an NFS
install.  That was probably Caldera Network Desktop 1.0.  Today SuSE
Professional series from 8.0 and up have Just Worked(tm) without any
special handling.

My next laptop may well be an Apple PowerBook or iBook if I can get around
their stupid touchpads.  I've gotten very used to the IBM eraser type
mouse, never using an external mouse.

Bill
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