On 11 Feb 2001, at 19:45, Jonathan Drews wrote:
Thanks Bill:
For the advice on the Dell laptops. a year ago I bought an inspiron with RedHat preinstalled but it ran really badly. I had to return it.
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SuSE's desktop is more stable and with the professional version I get all the software I need. What I am really hoping for is that someone can say: "I run SuSE 7.0 on an IBM 390 thinkpad (for example) and everything works". Many on this list have given me very good advice. However when I look at the specifications for certain Laptops I can't figure out if they have a Winmodem. They will say 56k .V90 or 56k .V90 integrated. I think the integrated is a synonym for winmodem. That's the real sticking point; the resellers and some of the manufacturers are not sufficiently explicit in describing the installed modems.
Agreed, I'd much rather run SuSE than RedHat. When I bought the laptop I already had a PCMCIA network card, and I knew that I'd want to run linux if I could so I decided to buy a PCMCIA modem and drop the internal modem, I don't know if this is an option for you, it does cost a little more but I was happy. I will have another attempt at installing SuSE on the laptop when I know more about the differences between it and RH, but that is one of the reasons I want to run linux on the laptop in the first place. So far I run SuSE as a server without knowing much about the internals - I know I should try harder but I only have so much time! I prefer SuSE to RH, and I prefer both to winXXXX. regards, Bill