On Monday 19 January 2004 16:01, Geoffrey wrote:
Jake Pumphrey wrote:
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 00:26, Jake Pumphrey wrote:
Hi. I am about to buy two laptops for my business, one of which (mine) I want to dual-boot with XP/SUSE [because we are running accounting s/w that won't run on Linux]. Any pointers as to which models to avoid etc? Thanks, Jake
Sorry, 8.2 pro is my SUSE OS.
I'm running a Sony pcg-grx700p with SuSE 9.0. I love it. It's also a dual boot XP/Linux.
Check out http://www.emperorlinux.com/ They sell preconfigured Linux laptops. Even if you don't buy from them, you'll have a good idea what you can get that is supported. I highly recommend them though.
I concure the sony GRX line are awesome machines and you don't have to get them pre-configured because SuSE 9.0 just knows how to do it right. (So does SuSE 8.2 pro). But before Jak runs out and builds a dual boot, (which wastes a lot of disk space and time and effort) he should try to install his accounting package under CrossOver Office. It might just work. If not, there is always Vmware from Vmware.com to run those few packages that won't work any other way. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen