Jeff;
Glad to see you have RH 7.3 installed. I have to use RH7.2 on the
tp760xl as there are some issues with the latest trident video drivers
(like no display in X) and xfree 4.x So until those are resolved I'll be
with 7.2.
Mike M.
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 12:55, jeff wrote:
> Matthew Moen wrote:
>
> >>>>>>>snipped<<<<<<
> >
> >I'm don't know where you're physically located Jeff, but lately I've been
> >attending the Sarasota meetings. If you bring your laptop there and
> >remind me to bring some boot floppies beforehand, I'll be happy to take a
> >stab at it.
> >
> I am in Tampa. Thanks for the offer, but I think I am going to
> stay with RH for a while. There were a few things that I disliked about
> the earlier releases, but they seem to have fixed most of them in 7.3.
>
> Someday when I actually have the time and energy to do it, I will do
> a "roll your own" Linux so that it works exactly the way I want rather
> than almost the way I want.
>
> >
> >As for FreeBSD, a friend of mine managed to get it to sleep (the only
> >feature he actually cared about) on some sort of ThinkPad. Apparently,
> >FreeBSD's laptop support is improving. I think they've even ported the
> >ALSA drivers. My problem with FreeBSD on laptops is that their hard
> >drives are small. I don't want a source tree competing with my mp3
> >collection! ;-)
> >
> I take it that FreeBSD is a bit of a space hog? Having no experience
> with FreeBSD, I had assumed that it would/could be pared down to only
> what is needed, similar to a Linux install. I guess I'll wait a while
> before trying it on a laptop.
>
> Thanks for the input!
> Jeff
>
> >
> >
>
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