As RedHat is ending meaningful support for all non-Enterprise
versions effective 2003.12.31, I'm casting about for good
alternatives to the RH 7.2 I've been using and keeping up to
date for quite some time.

One of RH's strengths is its installer and support for so many
varieties of hardware. The only problem I've ever had is the
need to do a couple tweaks to get XF86Config-4 right for any of
the machines I use.

Since I have a dead-slow network connection (but it's free!),
downloading is not a realistic option. Before I pop $40 for the
Slackware 9.1 CDs, it would be reassuring to know that someone
else with this laptop (933 MHz Pentium 3-M, 256MB of ram, some
flavor of ATI video, an Intel eepro100 ethernet port and the
built in eraser-button pointer) got it going without too much
grief.


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Jess Anderson wrote:
> Since I have a dead-slow network connection (but it's free!),
> downloading is not a realistic option. Before I pop $40 for the
> Slackware 9.1 CDs, it would be reassuring to know that someone
> else with this laptop (933 MHz Pentium 3-M, 256MB of ram, some
> flavor of ATI video, an Intel eepro100 ethernet port and the
> built in eraser-button pointer) got it going without too much
> grief.

look up your laptop at <http://www.linux-laptop.net> and see what they say
about it. in general, if one linux distro works, another will too.

slackware won't autoconfigure as much for you as RH does, however. you'll
have to keep that in mind.

btw, if downloading isn't an option, you can always find a website where
they sell downloaded versions for a few bucks a cd. (i saw one such site
the other day, linuxcdrs.<something> where they went for 99 dollarcents,
IIRC.)

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On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:43:02 +0000 (UTC), Jess Anderson <anderson@wisc.edu> wrote:
> downloading is not a realistic option. Before I pop $40 for the
> Slackware 9.1 CDs, it would be reassuring to know that someone
> else with this laptop (933 MHz Pentium 3-M, 256MB of ram, some
> flavor of ATI video, an Intel eepro100 ethernet port and the
> built in eraser-button pointer) got it going without too much
> grief.

I do hope I'm not breaking any international copyright laws by quoting
this portion of your post... please excuse me if I am.

That looks like a nice laptop.

Instead of downloading or buying the retail boxed set of Slackware 9.1
to find out if it'll work on your laptop, I'd first suggest checking
sites like www.linux-laptop.net. Rest assured, however, if it works
with RedHat, it can be made to work with Slackware (in the hardware
arena, anyway). Hardware is all controlled via the kernel, luckily
enough.

A cheaper option than dropping $40 for the boxed set would be to buy it
at someplace like cheapbytes.net, or if you're a member of a LUG, ask
somebody on your LUG's mailing list if they either have a spare copy
floating around or would be willing to burn you a copy for blank CDRs.

> * Copyright 2003 Jess Anderson (anderson@wisc.edu)

IMHO, that ain't cool.

Why in the world would you want to copyright a thing like a usenet post,
which is by its very nature very very open? I would think as somebody
who uses and relies upon Open Source Software, you would be more
sensative to things like copyrights being where they will only get in
the way of other folks trying to learn.

Please excuse me if I misunderstand the line quoted above.

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On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:36:33 -0800,
AthlonRob <junkmail@axpr.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:43:02 +0000 (UTC), Jess Anderson
> <anderson@wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>> * Copyright 2003 Jess Anderson (anderson@wisc.edu)
>
> Why in the world would you want to copyright a thing like a usenet post,
> which is by its very nature very very open?

AIUI, the OP's post is copyright by default, so declaring it doesn't
change anything. This is what I understand from
<URL:http://www.creativecommons.org>, and based on the OP being in
America, but I may be wrong. (IANAL).


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On 13 Nov 2003 00:34:21 GMT, Mark Hill <mark_usenet@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> AIUI, the OP's post is copyright by default, so declaring it doesn't
> change anything.

Well... ok... then why post the In-Your-Face Copyright in your sig,
pushing it over 4 lines?!?!?![1]

Get a legal sig and get the in-your-face copyright out of it, or we'll
all put you n jail for being illegal!

[1] Please look in the headers of this post.

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On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:43:02PM PST, Jess Anderson wrote
in article <bou60m$484$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>:

FWIW;
if redhat runs on it, most likely any other linux distribution will
run on it too. you might have to tinker with it a bit to get
everything going yourself, but it's still just linux.

> else with this laptop (933 MHz Pentium 3-M, 256MB of ram, some

so far so good.

> flavor of ATI video, an Intel eepro100 ethernet port and the

i had an ati video card in my previous laptops. no problems there
intel eepro are my favorite nics. so definately no problem there
either.

> built in eraser-button pointer) got it going without too much

it doesn't erally matter what shape your pointer has


Jurgen.

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Jess Anderson <anderson@wisc.edu> says...

>Before I pop $40 for the Slackware 9.1 CDs,

Price: $3.96
Shipping and Handling: $6.00 US$
http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/l...tl/product/239

(Needlesss to say, if you like it and start using it, you should
eitherbuy the $40 set or just contribute $30 to slackware)








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Guy Macon:
>Jess Anderson:

>>Before I pop $40 for the Slackware 9.1 CDs,

>Price: $3.96
>Shipping and Handling: $6.00 US$
>http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/l...tl/product/239

Service above and beyond the call; I didn't intend that anyone
should do the actual work for me, so I appreciate this a lot.
Merci tant.

>(Needlesss to say, if you like it and start using it, you
>should either buy the $40 set or just contribute $30 to
>slackware)

D'accord.


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Jess Anderson <anderson@wisc.edu> says...
>
>Guy Macon:
>
>>Jess Anderson:
>
>>>Before I pop $40 for the Slackware 9.1 CDs,
>
>>Price: $3.96
>>Shipping and Handling: $6.00 US$
>>http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/l...tl/product/239
>
>Service above and beyond the call; I didn't intend that anyone
>should do the actual work for me, so I appreciate this a lot.
>Merci tant.
>
>>(Needlesss to say, if you like it and start using it, you
>>should either buy the $40 set or just contribute $30 to
>>slackware)
>
>D'accord.

Thanks! The way to pay me back is to report how the Slackware
intallation went in alt.os.linux.slackware. That way we can all
learn from your experience.

(I wonder how many people think that I am french because
of my name? I am 100% British-American...)


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Doc Brown from the _Back to the Future_ movies? Do you have a
"challenging" engineering project that only an expert like Doc
Brown can solve? See my resume at [ http://www.guymacon.com ].

Guy Macon wrote:
> (I wonder how many people think that I am french because
> of my name? I am 100% British-American...)

but how do you pronounce 'Macon'? rhymes with bacon?

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