Re: DELL Inspiron and Linux

From: Christoph Borgmeier (borg@mail.desy.de)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 21:26:18 MET


On 9 Mar 2000, Anton Fokin wrote:

> I've just got a very nice DELL Inspiron 5000 notebook and I would like to
> Install Linux on it (preferably RedHat but I can follow your suggestions
> :) ). I have heard some noise about having problems with videocard etc.
> under some versions of Linux on the latest DELL's notebooks. If you have any
> experience in this subject, please let me know fore I go into real troubles.

So you would like to _become_ ROOT? (SorryCouldNotResist)

Yes, the machine it is terrible. My experience is, that it is possible to
set up a _slow_ X server on it. Try dejanews, cern.linux, etc.

Sorry for this off-topic message
Christoph



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