[CS-FSLUG] Re: Laptops and iBooks

[Dommy E. Hamid]

That's the problem with macs. It's a very nice computer, but it's just 
out of reach for some people. There is no way for example for people in 
Indonesia to buy a Mac based computer with the current exchange rate, 
when they can buy a Linux powered notebook for half the price instead.

So, I see you are hanging with Mandrake. How is it hanging so far?

Dommy

Nathan T. wrote:

> BTW. With Mandrake, so far so good, might get a lintel laptop instead
> and save myself a bit of cash, waiting, and extra cost with getting a
> mail order and sending it to Apple. The iBooks seem less and less
> affordable every day, maybe I'll get a Mac Mini later on instead.
> 
> On 7/25/05, Jerry VanBrimmer <jevb.1 at runbox.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:40:51PM -0600, Nathan T. wrote:
>>
>>>Just to let you know how far things have gone, I downloaded Debian
>>>which I had always considered my last resort since my previous
>>>experience with it wasn't great. I may consider Mandrake again, but
>>>that's about a fifty-fifty chance.
>>
>>Please have a look at SLAX. Though I haven't used it in a long time, it
>>is a live-cd, and I assume it's possible to install it to hard disk, see
>>this thread: http://slax.linux-live.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5930
>>
>>SLAX will give you a good feel for what Slackware can do. Slackware is
>>*not* a hard distro to get up and running. There is a great manual
>>online: http://www.slackbook.org/
>>
>>And there are a multitude of Slackware sites:
>>http://cookingupsomeslack.com/
>>http://www.groupsrv.com/linux/forum-9.html
>>http://www.linuxpackages.net/forum/
>>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?forumid=14
>>http://linuxtipps.sourceforge.net/index.php
>>http://members.cox.net/laitcg/new/intro.html
>>http://www.slackware.org/
>>http://shilo.is-a-geek.com/slack/intro0.html
>>http://swaret.sourceforge.net/index.php
>>http://www.userlocal.com/
>>http://www.audioslack.com/
>>http://dle.kiwiuk.net/linuxguides/
>>http://www.slackware.com/~msimons/slackware/grfx/
>>http://f-r-e-d.org/zanimo.html
>>http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slackware
>>
>>http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
>>                                 ^ checkinstall makes it easy to
>>install packages in native Slackware .tgz format. You can take any
>>tarball, run ./configure, make, checkinstall, then pkginstall
>><package>, and Voila! you have installed a Slackware package that the
>>package management system knows about. It *IS* really that simple.
>>Another thing, the *ONLY* time I have had dependency problems is when I
>>was trying to install Evolution and Sylpheed. Slack really is simple,
>>and stable. Works the same way *every* time you boot it up. (As long as you
>>don't
>>tweak on it of course. :-)) 
>>
>>heers,
>>Jerry
>>
>>-- 
>>Godspeed,
>>Jerry
>>The KING is coming!..................Rev. 1:7
>>The bottom line......................John 3:3-7
>>Linux User #153217..................http://counter.li.org
>>
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