Looking for Linux Laptop

[Stephen Burke]

The quest for Linux friendly laptops appears to have expanded beyond the 
original post here, so I I thought I would add my part
since I have 2  latops here both  happily  running Linux and the plans I 
had for the second one disappeared. For a while, they were both running 
Redhat 9, but the one I am willing to part with has recently had SuSE 
8.2 installed on it after I put it into someone else's hands as part of 
an experiment (someone completely ignorant of the Linux realm) and it 
came back to me with too many problems to try to solve them all
-> new install - new flavor.
;-)


It is a dell Latitude PII (366Mhz), 128MB RAM, 4GB HD.
I will throw in a netgear FA411 pcmcia NIC with it, as the other laptop 
has an on-board NIC.
Since ready cash is sort of an issue for me at the moment (recently 
finished grad school and no gainful employment yet), I would hope to get 
at least $300 for everything, but that is negotiable.

Interested parties please get back to me.

S.

p.s. I have checked the dell site and the numbers on the power supply 
here do not match the recalled one's from a couple months ago.


Jesse Jarzynka wrote:

>After doing a little research, and reading reviews here: 
>http://www.epinions.com/content_81042378372, I think I will have to
>pass. Apparently that model has a ton of problems. Thanks anyways Chris.
>-Jesse
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>On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 12:05, Christopher Crowell wrote:
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>>Sorry it took me so long to get back to ya, Jesse. The laptop is in great
>>condition. The only blemish is a small crack on the lid near the hinge. Its
>>not very big at all and from what I hear it happens to a lot of the Compaqs.
>>I'd like to get about $500-550 for it.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
>>Jesse Jarzynka
>>Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 2:32 PM
>>To: nflug at nflug.org
>>Subject: RE: Looking for Linux Laptop
>>
>>What's the condition etc.? How much are you lookin' for? -Jesse
>>
>>On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 13:55, Christopher Crowell wrote:
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>>>S3-VIA TwisterK 16mb
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
>>>Jesse Jarzynka
>>>Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 1:04 PM
>>>To: nflug at nflug.org
>>>Subject: RE: Looking for Linux Laptop
>>>
>>>What's the video card in it? -Jesse
>>>
>>>On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:17, Christopher Crowell wrote:
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>>>>I have one I'm looking to get rid of. It's a Compaq Presario 730us. 1ghz
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>>>AMD
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>>>>Duron, 384mb RAM, 20gb HD, dvd-rom. I've successfully installed Red Hat
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>>8
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>>>on
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>>>>it and have had no problems, although I tried to doing Red Hat 9 on it
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>>and
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>>>>couldn't get the video working right. How much are you looking to spend?
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
>>>>Ronald Wechter
>>>>Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 9:17 AM
>>>>To: nflug at nflug.org
>>>>Subject: Looking for Linux Laptop
>>>>
>>>>All,
>>>> 
>>>>As you know laptops are very expensive so I figured I would query the
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>>>group.
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>>>>Does anyone have an older laptop that they would like to get rid of (450
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>>>>500mhz) that is somewhat linux friendly that they are looking to get rid
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>>>of
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>>>>:)
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>>>>Email me 
>>>> 
>>>>Ron
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