Re: Debian, laptops, and X

1999-04-25 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Will Lowe wrote: > I'm looking at buying a pair of laptops which will need to dual-boot > Windows and Debian. > > I'm not concerned that they be Pentium IV 600 Ghz machines or be huge > number-crunchers, but I would like them to run X enough that I can use > emacs and font-lo

Re: Debian, laptops, and X

1999-04-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I have a Dell Inspiron 3000. I have 800x600. go to http://ompages.com/debian/laptoptopscreenshot to see for your self. I use the XBF_neomagic xserver from RH. It's pretty nice. I've no problems. Dell laptops kick ass. They are a bit pricy though. I hear IBM thinkpads are nice, and very li

Debian, laptops, and X

1999-04-25 Thread Will Lowe
I'm looking at buying a pair of laptops which will need to dual-boot Windows and Debian. I'm not concerned that they be Pentium IV 600 Ghz machines or be huge number-crunchers, but I would like them to run X enough that I can use emacs and font-lock mode, netscape (with something more that 256 col