Comments on: Buying a Linux laptop in 2007

By: UK Office Supplies

UK Office Supplies — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:48:54 +0000

So whats new for 2008? I tried installing XP to this old laptop I had lying around and it blew the thing up… seriously! here it is on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=170228591157&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=007 - i know a piece of crap, but i just wanted someting to take on holiday which i didnt mind getting lost/stolen/broken.

By: HOWTO: sound after hibernate in Linux (Gusty/Lenny) | fak3r

HOWTO: sound after hibernate in Linux (Gusty/Lenny) | fak3r — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:51:47 +0000

[...] Linux (Gusty/Lenny) By fak3r | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) With all the tweaking to get my Dell Vostro 1500 working with Ubuntu, it’s still been an annoyance to get sound working evertime after [...]

By: Dzo

Dzo — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:50:26 +0000

Well written

Steve

http://www.laptopmall.info

By: fak3r

fak3r — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:39:33 +0000

@h218
Fans and temp on Gusty just work. AFAIK conky is only a monitor, not a controller for the fans, but it’s great to watch the temp. Aside from that, another thing that just works is the webcam; after my Gusty upgrade after the release I installed cheese - and ran it…webcam works. Not sure what else there is that I haven’t tested (save for the modem), bbut feel free to ask away here though and I’ll let you know. While the forums were invaluable to setup stuff before, I think it’s all working by default now. I may reinstall, since you can encrypt partitions while installing, and I’m thinking of encrypting /home from the start now.

After that I’m going to start working with ‘PowerTop’ and really try to get the laptop to run as efficiently as possible. For now I’m really liking the ‘top, and it screams with Linux on it.

By: h218

h218 — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:53:47 +0000

Congrats on the great laptop! I also have the Vostro 1500, but I’m still running 7.04.

Question: I installed gkrellm on that bad boy, to make sure the fans both worked with 7.04 (it was recommended by one of the Ubuntu Forum posts - people apparently thought it was getting too hot)… I am upgrading to 7.10 this weekend and was wondering if that’s even necessary anymore, what with all the “just works” you experienced?

Does Conky allow controlling the fans? Have you noticed the Vostro getting too hot?

Thanks, and congrats again!

By: fak3r

fak3r — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:40:42 +0000

@Leslie
Interesting, to be honest, I’ve always thought of Linux being very good with different languages due to it’s extensive use of locales, but that’s just within the OS, apps that provide this on their own (or provide more detail than what the OS has) need to build that themselves. I can see how a grammar checker would be important, while it might be strong for one language it would be different another. I wonder if there is an Open Source API that someone is working on to connect these.

By: Leslie Satenstein

Leslie Satenstein — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:36:21 +0000

I have a problem with today’s office products under linux.

I write in English, French and Spanish. As I use three languages, I need a grammar checker for the latter two, as the words contain accents so that I need to know when the E takes a É or é or ë

The spanish nunia is important.

So far, Microsoft office 2003 helps me in this area. As for spelling, the firefox language dictionaries are superior to the OO dictionaries.

Ergo, I need to dual boot, or be able to take my dvd and install office under WINE or Crossover.

Eventually, KDE may have a good product, but we need a grammar checker.

By: Rahen Mckinny

Rahen Mckinny — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:53:57 +0000

i think core 2 duo is enough for all laptops types even Vista,
for linux the proccessors not important because it is like a notepad not a MS Word like Vista