Thulemanden
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Posted: June 30 2006,18:42 |
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I Don't see a 'hardware compatibility' thread, so I'll add my experience here.
Got DSL installed on a Compaq Armada 7770DMT I inherited from a colleague with NT on it.
I added the ethernet card D-Link DFE-670TXD and after several tries it connected. Several tries because I had to go through threating the labtop with Knoppix, DesktopBSD and Ubuntu before it succumbed to my iron will. Not the cheapest ethernet card on the market, but it's what a pro dealer advised for exactly my lab top, so I took the safe exit and paid up.
After mimicing a re-install of DSL, it suddenly worked. :-)
The speed on the 233mHz, 128mb ram is sufficient and much better than feared. Great for email and office tasks while the most heavy websites lingers on. But a labtop really isn't the tool made to surf the net.
I see labtops as exactly what it does. 1) Reading email on the go, and 2) doing simple officetasks on out-of-office ttravels. Of course a lot of information can be necessary to find on the internet while travelling, but heavy entertainment websurfing isn't so actual for lab top travellers on business.
Now I am waiting for the new battery I ordered overseas and I've got a little devil of a labtop with a great and fast OS on it for app. euro135.-
What is particularly nice about even the tiny DSL is, that it supports Danish keyboard and characters.
It'll make one heck of a home, amateur web server with low power consumption and quiet too.
Now I'll be looking for other sexy hardware to add, like USB and external hard drives or a cd-burner.
Thanks to the guys behind Damn Great Linux!
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