Re: Somewhat OT: stuff I forgot to mention at the meeting

[Tom Dison <fretinator@yahoo.com>]

How's the Linux support on the laptop (video, sound,
etc.)?

--- Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> wrote:

> First of all, I want to apologize for everyone for
> ducking out early
> last night and generally being a littly out of it. 
> Hopefully I didn't
> get close enough to anyone to spread this cold...
> 
> Anyway, I kept meaning to mention this:
> 
>   http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
> 
> That's a Cygwin "live CD".  Basically it lets you
> pop a CD into a
> Windows box and have X and a basic Cygwin
> environment running from the
> CD.  It's pretty slick, although there's more than
> enough space left
> on the CD to put a lot more useful tools.  (The
> biggest thing I've
> missed so far is rsync.  It does have vim, ssh, and
> perl though, so it
> definitely doesn't suck.)
> 
> On the subject of notebooks, if anyone is in the
> market for an
> inexpensive one, we are going to start keeping an
> $899 Acer model
> in-stock.  It is a Mobile Sempron 2800+, 512MB RAM,
> 40GB hard drive,
> 15" LCD, Windows XP Pro (can't do anything about
> that, unfortunately),
> etc., etc.  It's a little bit large (obviously
> designed for a larger
> LCD), but it isn't terribly heavy.
> 
> And on the subject of good deals, if any of you are
> in the market for
> an LCD panel, we are carrying a *really* nice brand
> (*very* bright).
> I think the 19" (1280x1024, with VGA and DVI inputs)
> is a particularly
> good deal at $399.
> 
> Steve
> -- 
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> Users Group
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> details.
> Steven Pritchard          | http://www.silug.org/
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