OT: UNIX on Windows

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>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.)

As I said, I hate touchpads with a passion, and the ThinkPads don't have
them so I haven't had to deal with them.

>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?

That hasn't been a problem with the ThinkPads in the seven years I've been
using them.  There's only one choice, but it works.

Now if you want to discuss sound, that's a bit nastier :-).

Bill
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