[Offtopic] Re: Laptop/Lab Linux

[Zach Alexakos]

Zach Alexakos Geelong North Secondary College Information Technology DepartmentHi David, 

I managed to install Red Hat 9 on my Laptop-IBM R40 a few years ago, used Partition Magic to partition the Hard Drive- was also running XP on a dual boot setup.  It worked ok but when I accidentally erased the master boot file to setup grub I ran into a few problems.  

Main issue with the R40 is the HD is only 20GB.  Red Hat 9 takes up to at least 5 GB installation alone- doesn't leave much for a space hungry XP.  As a result I had to dump Red Hat due to space issues and compatibility.  You really need to be working in a Linux environment to survive as an individual Linux user-otherwise Office org and additional software is ineffective (from a curriculum viewpoint).  

With a 40GB or 60GB HD this should not be as much of an issue unless video editing is required.  Main problem with Linux is video editing software- couldn't find any at the time although this may have since changed- if someone could inform me of this I would like to know.  


Zach Alexakos
Nth Geelong SC


""David Dawson"" <ddawson at mgs.vic.edu.au> wrote in message news:mailpost.1052275238.13232 at linux.fhc.vic.edu.au...
> Hi
> I have been wondering if anyone else has had issues with laptops and Linux
> (RedHat) - my Acer 220 Travelmate has it but it needed KDE to run inside
> XFree86 - *very* tricky.
> Yet a Toshiba  1730 <?> took it easily.
> The main issue appears to be screens and onboard video - and win modems
> never work without windoze.
> Any other laptop experiences?
> This is of interest since some laptop schools are considering Linux in the
> future.
> Are there any Linux labs out there - and how are they going?
> David Dawson
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> Rod - u r absolutely spot on! thanx.
> Keith
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> ----Original Message Follows----
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> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 22:33:34 +1100
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> Dear List
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> I am surprised at the anal retentive attitudes of some of our colleagues.
> This list is the most helpful and useful tools in the Victorian Education
> System. I do not know of any other subject area that is so well networked
> with its colleagues. To not share experiences with as many people as
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> The funny thing is we all know that even the "enemies of free speech" on the
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> Can't believe that we have had to resort to this......democracy is a figment
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> Look forward to sharing any topic with you all!
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