[H-GEN] Linux recommendations for laptop

Robert Stanford rob at rotapile.com
Thu Jan 16 03:59:51 EST 2003


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On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:55, Greg Black wrote:

> I have a no-name laptop that's about 12 months old that runs
> FreeBSD-4.3 (but won't properly run any later releases, due to
> changes in the handling of PCMCIA cards in the later releases).
> 
> I've half given up hoping that FreeBSD will come to the party
> and am considering trying out a Linux distribution.  I want one
> that has a relatively small footprint, 

ltsp has pcmcia boot floppy images available for laptops. Im pretty sure
wireless is supported. 
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