On 23 Jun, Rich Kulawiec shaped the bitstream to say:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 04:24:03PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote:
>> Installation isn't the be-all of OSes ease of use - it's only a minor
>> part, yet it usually becomes the focus of the discussion. We thus have
>> a bunch of people who can't see the ease of use of whatever OS they
>> might want to get involved with for fear of not being able to cross the
>> installation hurdle.
>
> I agree with you. I've had to face the installation hurdle myself --
> despite nearly two decades of Unix work, *I'm* having trouble figuring
> out which laptop to buy to run Linux on, because, having never used
> any Micro$oft OS, I have just about zero familiarity with PC hardware.
> (I've lived in a world of Sun, Sequent, NeXT, Digital, SGI, and HP machines.)
>
> And I certainly can't afford to buy a machine that won't run Linux.
> But it's turning out to be quite difficult to ascertain, for
> J. Random Laptop spotted in misc.forsale.*, whether or not it
> will run (say) Red Hat Linux 5.1. (I assure you that I'm neither
> lazy or stupid. I have and continue to do my homework. But many
> of the documents I've read presume a familiarity with PC hardware
> that would be the norm for folks converting from DOS/Windows, but
> which isn't for folks coming from the workstation-based Unix world.)
>
> My suggestion? Hmmm...easy for me to suggest this, since I don't
> have the knowledge or the time to do the work: a Linux configuration
> web page where visitors can indicate which hardware they have and
> which would then indicate which Linuxes/free Unixes support it.
> The mechanics of such a page would be relatively easy; what would *not*
> be easy would be maintaining the data tables behind it which keep
> track of which OS supports which hardware and in what combination.
>
> ---Rsk
> Rich Kulawiec
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Rich,
Here's a link to paper on my web site about this very same topic.
It was published there with the permission of the author! It
covers your topic pretty well for a specific piece of hardware.
http://www.moongroup.com/unix/linux-on-acernotelight-laptop.html
Lemme' know how it turns out, 'kay?
--
Chuck Mead
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