kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
i will be buying a new laptop in a week or so.
In stage 1 I hope to run a dual boot system
I see no reason to do this, if you're planning on a VM anyway. In my last two laptops, I've immediately (before activation) dumped the base installed OS (and all the crapware shipped with it) and simply installed openSUSE. I then installed a VM and used the product key/activation from the original shipped version. (On a previous laptop, they gave me that POS, XP Home. So, I at least used my MSDN XP Pro version on the VM.) As for VMWare, you can certainly get that or use VirtualBox. I've used both and find that VirtualBox is almost as good as VMWare. In addition, it provides seamless integration with KDE. See the screen shot of my Windows Vista taskbar running right on top of the KDE taskbar (kicker). http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2008/20081020_vista_virtualbox_seamless.pn...
, some windoze version and then suse 10.3, probably 32 bit but that's not final, the 64 bit ver is not only faster, but it is approaching the 100% compatibility mark.
I've had SUSE/openSUSE on five laptops. I am currently running 10.3 on one and 11.1 on another (with KDE 3.5x). Both are 32-bit. Here's what to watch for. First, I'd HIGHLY suggest Intel wireless. You get a native driver from Intel and it works. (There's the issue with KnetworkManager being finiky but that's a software thing, and I'm trying to get Wicd running to solve it.) Second, you want to go with a dedicated (not shared) video. I've found that I prefer NVidia over ATI, but really haven't found issue with either. If you go with an HP or a Dell, you should have no problems getting the multimedia keys to work. In both my recent laptops, the keys work out of the box. On my older laptops, I used LinEAK. I don't know if it is even supported. http://lineak.sourceforge.net/index.php?nav=docs You can always checkout Tux Mobil - http://tuxmobil.org - a site dedicated to mobile linux, or check out Linux on Laptops - http://www.linux-laptop.net/ - for hardware information. You can also check out the openSUSE hardware guides: http://en.opensuse.org/Hardware and the LinuxQuestions.org Hardware Compatibility list: http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/
no, thanks, i will not try 11.0 or 11.1 yet, i need a kde that has *no* hooks to kde4 until at least kde 4.4 as they mark them, but let's not digress.
11.1 works just fine with KDE 3.5x. No issues that I can find.
In stage 2 I hope to run suse 10.3 as the base system, then the plan is to load up vmware and run 2 or 3 virtual oss'es, and to include the "default" windoze partition as a vmware option.
The plan is to Buy a core-duo from Dell or ibm/lenovo. 2.4 ghz plus, 4 gb ram, 300-500 gb hard drive, wifi. since there will be graphics involved, i might even go to a 17" lcd. blue ray read a possibility, but definitely not a must have.
I am not scared of ati drivers, have installed a few with direct ati downloads (the trick really is to *reboot* right after running an aticonfig:)), so I ask the group what other pitfalls might I want to avoid.
thanks in advance,
d.
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