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  From: Matthew Geddes <mgeddes@xavier.sa.edu.au>
  To  : Bruce Moffatt <bmoffatt@picknowl.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:16:16 +1030

Re: A little family tale

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Bruce Moffatt wrote:

> For those in need of a little heartwarming, this from my 13 yo daughter.
> She has a new laptop for her first year at high school. She is trying to
> get the school's IT manager aside to get permission to load Linux onto
> the 'spare' 2 GB left on the hard drive. She has to run Win98 for
> school, along with a swag of apps from various software houses. After
> having to use the hardware reset button after a valiant but vain attempt
> to 'three finger salute' windows after a complete lockup, a fairly
> frequent occurence lately, this little quote:
> "Why do people pay money for Windows when it crashes all the time, when
> they can Linux for free! Linux never crashes like this Dad. It just
> doesn't make sense"
>
> I suspect we will have a go at loading Linux onto her laptop Real Soon
> Now (tm).
>
> The said machine is a Toshiba Satellite 1550 CDS. I have never done a
> load onto a laptop before, dunno what I will face, wish me luck :)))
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruce
>
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We have a couple here. They don't have Linux, but the only problem I have
ever seen with Laptops and Linux is the video card. Given that the 1550CDS
comes with an S3 card, you should pretty much be right. Toshiba should really
ship their laptops with Linux - they are a good match.

Matt

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Bruce Moffatt wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>For those in need of a little heartwarming, this
from my 13 yo daughter.
<br>She has a new laptop for her first year at high school. She is trying
to
<br>get the school's IT manager aside to get permission to load Linux onto
<br>the 'spare' 2 GB left on the hard drive. She has to run Win98 for
<br>school, along with a swag of apps from various software houses. After
<br>having to use the hardware reset button after a valiant but vain attempt
<br>to 'three finger salute' windows after a complete lockup, a fairly
<br>frequent occurence lately, this little quote:
<br>"Why do people pay money for Windows when it crashes all the time,
when
<br>they can Linux for free! Linux never crashes like this Dad. It just
<br>doesn't make sense"
<p>I suspect we will have a go at loading Linux onto her laptop Real Soon
<br>Now (tm).
<p>The said machine is a Toshiba Satellite 1550 CDS. I have never done
a
<br>load onto a laptop before, dunno what I will face, wish me luck :)))
<p>Cheers,
<p>Bruce
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subject</blockquote>

<p><br>We have a couple here. They don't have Linux, but the only problem
I have ever seen with Laptops and Linux is the video card. Given that
the 1550CDS comes with an S3 card, you should pretty much be right. Toshiba
should really ship their laptops with Linux - they are a good match.
<p>Matt
<br> 
<pre>-- 
"Our goal for the next release of Windows 2000 is to have zero bugs."
- Lucovsky, Microsoft</pre>
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