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From: veit@fanoe.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: Un*x on laptop/notebook
Message-ID: <1993Mar3.100312.10621@gmd.de>
Sender: veit@fanoe (Holger Veit)
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Organization: GMD - German National Research Center for Computer Science
References: <9306211.12030@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <1n1b6pINN6oh@bredbeddle.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 10:03:12 GMT
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In article <1n1b6pINN6oh@bredbeddle.cs.purdue.edu>, sjc@cs.purdue.edu (Steve Chapin) writes:
|> }} In article <9306211.12030@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Summerfield) writes:
|> }}
|> }} Is anyone out there running any Un*x variant on a laptop or notebook
|> }} computer?
|> }}
|> }} I am particularly interested in info about the free Un*x clones, Linux
|> }} and 386BSD, since I can't afford to pay for a commercial version (at least
|> }} initially).
|>
|> I'm in much the same situation, as I'm buying a 486-based notebook
|> Real Soon Now. There are several people who run Linux on their
|> notebooks.
|>
I run, besides on the larger tower system, 386bsd without real problems on
a Highscreen 486DX2-50. There were problems with a slow keyboard vs. fast CPU,
these should be fixed now in the latest (ALPHA-)version of codrv.
This notebook has 4MB (soon to be upgraded) and 170MB disk space, which is
fully sufficent even to recompile XFree86.
[...]
|> To my understanding, Linux doesn't currently support suspend/resume.
|> It would run fine through the "sleep mode" on my 386 notebook, though.
If anyone has specs about the working of "power down" modes on laptops/notebooks,
one might consider implementing code for that.
Holger
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