The State of Laptop Linux In 2005 422
jg21 writes "LinuxWorld's senior editor James Turner reports this month on what he calls The State of Laptop Linux in 2005 and says it's a lot better than it was in 2004, but adds - after conducting his own new test to see if any Linux distro is yet really laptop-ready: "What's needed to make things better? Well, the Linux community needs to address the device driver crisis." Turner acknowledges that binary-only drivers are a sore spot with free software purists, but says he'd "rather have a fully functional, if closed, Nvidia driver than a reverse-engineered one that limps along." Overall though he concludes that widespread laptop Linux is much closer now."
then, is 2005... (Score:5, Funny)
Finally! I was getting tired of every year since 1998 being the year of 'Linux on the desktop'
Laptop linux in 2005? (Score:3, Funny)
does not say anything about power management (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Gentoo on my Dell D600... (Score:2, Funny)
Interesting!
Where did you get the drivers for that?
Re:Installation woes (Score:3, Funny)
These posts always surprise me, because I've been running Linux on an old IBM TP-600E for years, with never a problem at all. I guess I didn't know that it wasn't "ready", or surely I wouldn't have dared such a thing. Should I have been experiencing difficulties? Is there something wrong with me or my laptop? My desktop was running Linux long before it was "ready" for that, too...
shut up hippie (Score:2, Funny)
look, real men carry a gasoline powered generator with them and plug that into their laptop. real REAL men carry a chainsaw with a dynamo on it so they can check email while they cut down 300 year old redwoods.
piss ant hippies like you are the problem with america, and why we got attacked by the terrorists.
Re:Happy with my laptop, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:My Take from a windows user at home (Score:2, Funny)