Re: Screen cont. (from the "Peanut Gallery")

[Kevin Saenz <kevin spinaweb com au>]

What are the specs on the laptop?
what is the brand of the laptop?
what is the model?
what video adapter does it have?
Does RedHat support all the hardware in the Laptop?


> 
> Just to add something my card and the notebook components are recognized
> correctly under RH 6.1 during  installation , the catch is that it doesn't
> install the correct modules or whatever it is.....
> And now think if I have so much trouble with components that are supported
> what will hapend to the unsupported ones?
> Anyway I figured out that since RH6.0 and CorelLinux work fine perhaps I
> should find what xfree86 they used and try to set it up for RH6.1 , any
> ideas on how i can do that???
> Regards Tassos
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>
> To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 7:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Screen cont. (from the "Peanut Gallery")
> 
> > Paul Newman pgen com wrote:
> > >
> > > Some commercial companies have rolled out Linux onto end user
> > > machines.  If the end user is a real end user with no tweaking
> > > permissions, just wants word processing, internet browsing,
> > > saving files on a file server, printing and internal and
> > > external email, then what's the impracticality?  Migration may
> > > be difficult but if the machines came ready-built that would
> > > get around that one.
> >
> > "Linux-ready" machines would alleviate a lot of hardware problems.
> > That much is true, but Linux distros do not currently have the
> > level of ease of configurability for basic setups that is required
> > to really "break into the market".
> >
> > Your chances of using Linux end-user machines are much better
> > in the enterprise client market.  Large corporations that have
> > extremely security-conscious, standardized user machines will
> > be controlling the configuration angle from the network, and
> > they can staff the right people to get it done.  In the smaller
> > business (non-Point-of-Sale, that is), Linux is much more likely
> > to play a server role than be anyone's personal machine.
> >
> > Linux distros are no more ready for the PC market than NT is
> > ready for the server market.  I believe that it will be easier
> > though for Linux to trickle down than it will be for NT to
> > wade upstream.  Of course, that's just my opinion.
> >
> > - Kevin Colby
> >   kevinc grainsystems com
> >
> >
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