From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EUmhv-0004RX-EW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:56:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9QEsGFq010279; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:54:16 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9QEcSDq017666 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:38:28 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEC7418034 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:38:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03571-05 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:38:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.123.100] (206-127-19-237.fwd.datafoundry.com [206.127.19.237]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E38E518031 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:38:26 -0500 (CDT) From: John Jolet To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] laptop Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:40:00 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200510260854.37937.john@jolet.net> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510260940.00615.john@jolet.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: 8718bf24-d850-4dbc-ab3c-7a72e24fe2da X-Archives-Hash: f4bb340c78d2e189bbeb6b710e8057d8 On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:20, A. Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote: > > I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be > > putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small > > 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on > > (with sound and wireless, etc)? > > > > I'm currently using a dell inspiron 1100 and gentoo slid on very easily. > > Oh, and they want it a grand or under (us dollars). Thanks. > > Seems to me, "very small 'n' light" is mutually exclusive with "grand or > under". well, the under a grand is more important than small n light. :) so really i'm looking for a laptop known to work easily with gentoo, as small as possible. > > Unless you're interested in running GentooPPC on an iBook? > > > -- -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net john@jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list