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On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, Ken Manheimer wrote: > resolved, recently. ? I'm interested in knowing if anyone on the list > knows the disposition of linux on 701cs machines - is the install fairly > straightforward, will it avail all the peripheral resources (IR ports, > PCMCIA SCSI and ethernet cards, power mgmt, ...) etc? I was just browsing the linux hardware newsgroup yesterday. One person report he had it running just fine on a TP701C - PCMCIA ethernet and SCSI, built-in modem, and soundblaster emulation all works fine. Dunno about power management or IR ports. He had it running 1024x768x8bit virtual on the LCD, and 1024x768x8bit on a CRT. Your machine being a CS might give you some problems. > Alternately, i've started considering going with OS/2 warp (OS/2 2.11, > warp v3 is supposed to come preinstalled). I've heard OS/2 is a pretty > capable OS, and a machine here at work has the OS/2 with the tcp/ip stuff > - part of OS/2 Connect, i presume - which looks like it gives pretty > complete tcp/ip capabilities - telnet, ftp, NFS, X, etc. You should think about what programs you're going to use. Linux has a much lower overhead for stuff like telnet, ftp, emacs, etc. I looked at the programs I used under OS/2 and found 95% of my time was in ports of unix tools, so I switched to Linux. With OS/2 and 12MB on my TP750, running just the X server and emacs started heavy swapping. Under Linux it's *slightly* better (most of the overhead comes from X - without X I can start emacs several times without swapping, which I couldn't do with OS/2). ___________________________________________________________________________ John H. Kim "A common mistake that people make when trying to design jokim@mit.edu something completely foolproof is to underestimate the jokim@tuna.mit.edu ingenuity of complete fools." -- Douglas Adams