[H-GEN] Installing on a laptop

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From: Tony Nugent <tony at linuxworks.com.au>
To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:08:45 +1000
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Installing on a laptop

> I'm not familiar with the vaio laptops, but I suspect that your
> issues with using linux on it in the past are no longer an issue.

The issues I was having were with an i740 graphics card on my desktop 
PC.  A VERY common chipset, and XFree86 said it supported it.  Damned 
if I could get it to work tho.

> > found the command line a little limiting, so I dumped it), and I
> have
> 
> Huh?  Limiting???? 
>
>   I cut my teeth with linux way ago (and dos long before that) on a
>   386dx33/8Mb/trident8900c, and using X on it was like swimming in
>   50 fathoms of molassas :-)
I started playing with PCs back on an old 386 with DOS installed too, 
but so many of the apps I wanted to use were in X.  
>   For me, I regard the command line as "normal" and very much
>   second-nature, it is where the *real* power of unix (linux) lies.
True, but I think it's too difficult to work at a command line ONLY.  
Equally, you are missing out on a lot if you never learn how to use the 
command line properly.



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