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Bjorn Dittmer-Roche wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, linux wrote:
> 
> 
>>I am looking over the Dell Financial Laptops on Ebay store.
>>
>>I know nothing about Dell only Toshiba (8100 specificially)
>>so can anyone recommend or point me to some reviews of
>>the Dell line. This will not be my primary Laptop, just a secondary
>>that will have to run both Linux and Xp.
>>Thanks
> 
> 
> RH is much friendlier towards dell laptops than debian. Good idea to use a
> new kernel with "dell laptop" options compiled in or, for example, your
> machine will crash when unplugging the power cable. Even with RH 8.0 that
> someone else installed, I completely froze the machine within five minutes
> when I tried to switch to a virtual console!
> 
> I have heard some BIOSes (and not necessarily the old ones) are buggy,
> though I can't say I have any experience where my dell laptop had a
> problem that I knew was the BIOS.
> 
> My inspiron 8100 took forever to get things working on debian. Even
> knoppix failed to recognize the screen resolution! If you do use debian,
> I'm happy to send you all my config files.
> 
> So bottom line is it works well when it works but some distros/kernels
> work better than others and you may have to invest a little time.
> 
> good luck!
> 
> 	bjorn
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