Re: A query for Dell laptop users

From: blackcat (hello_at_anywhere.net)
Date: 04/10/04


Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 22:34:50 +0100

Madhusudan Singh wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am in the market for a new laptop, and want to know about your
> experiences with recent Dell laptops.
>
I have had an Inspiron 5100 for the last 10 months. No problem at all, it
works perfectly. Windows XP on 14 Gb + Linux SuSE 8.2 on 14 Gb :

% df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc6 13582504 7697888 5884616 57% /
/dev/hdc2 14621088 9324172 5296916 64% /windows/C
shmfs 257224 0 257224 0% /dev/shm
% uname -a
Linux belize 2.4.20-4GB #1 Mon Mar 17 17:54:44 UTC 2003 i686 unknown unknown
GNU/Linux

>
> More importantly, does everything (special buttons, softmodem,
> etc.) work
> with Linux ?
>
Modem works even better under Linux than under Windows.
Usb optical mouse from Swann : http://www.swann.com.au/

A KDE user, keeping Vindoze for my primitive flatmate who spends all my ISP
time on bloody Kazaa...

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