OT: UNIX on Windows

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Confusious (Bill Campbell) say:
> 
> 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.

Okay, let me ask this...how -do- you get around laptop "mice" like touchpads
that are the touchpad type and apparently require special drivers?  They
don't work as a "regular" mouse under 'doze.  (I'm thinking of my Digital
HiNote VP for example.)

I'm not sure I even want to know about X11.  For that matter, how would one
handle X on an LCD flatscreen?  Do they even -have- sync rates and dot
pitch in the conventional sense?

mark->
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