[NTLUG:Discuss] LapTops - was: Dallas Morning News article

[Steve Baker]

greenglow484 at juno.com wrote:

>         In Net time, this constitutes "ancient history" now.  Still, I'm gonna
> post it, just in case anyone missed it on Linux Today et al., or in the
> local papers.  It's too good to miss, I think.

Yep - it was a generally good article.

If Kendall is listening - I'd be interested to hear why he recommends
RedHat for Laptops.

I've just purchased a secondhand Compaq LTE 5000 (with docking station),
it seems like a really nice toy for $400.

Anyhow, I'm running SuSE 6.3 on it (that's what I run on all my computers
these days) - and I was wondering what I might gain from switching to
RedHat - or at least which packages or setup things RedHat has that I
should download onto that box.

One of the annoying things about SuSE is that every time I install
another package from the CD's using YAST, it restores the state of
some system files that I've manually tweaked.

For example, I change /etc/inittab to make ctrlaltdel do a poweroff
instead of a shutdown - and whenever I install even a tiny utility,
from the CD, I find that inittab is set back to do shutdown...grrrr!

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