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"The Debian/GNU Linux has most of the desired features for a laptop 
installation."

Just things I've read...
CJK

On Tuesday 30 April 2002 06:09 pm, Ben Pitzer wrote:
> John,
>
> Potato will do alright on older hardware, however I'm not sure how well
> it will do on older /laptop/ hardware.  Debian has never really been an
> extremely laptop-friendly distro.  There are plenty of people who have
> gotten it to install and run beautifully on laptops, but that was
> obviously not the first concern of the developers in writing the code.
> I'm a long time Debian user, and I've always felt that it was much more
> geared towards being a server distro than a desktop or notebook distro.
> I think that others will agree.  Potato has somewhat older software on
> it as well, so some of that may not be as laptop-friendly as you might
> like, either.
>
> In all, I'd say try it, but be prepared to run into some problems.
> Especially on a 386 laptop.
>
> Regards,
> Ben Pitzer
>
> On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 16:11, john broome wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 15:32, M. Mueller wrote:
> > > Indicate interest below and I'll bring 'em.
> > >
> > >         stable/
> > >         potato/
> > >         2.2r6
> > > i386      X
> >
> > I'd like to try potato on my i386 laptop.  I can wipe out RH to give it
> > a shot.  How well does does debian handle older HW?
> >
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