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To: damniseedemons who wrote (14678)	12/6/1997 3:15:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Jeez, Sal, if you're running a laptop you should probably just dial in/telnet in to the university system. Depending on what you need to do, of course, but a laptop is a pretty minimal size screen to run X on. I'm not familiar with Windows X implementations at all. Support under linux may prove difficult, I did a quick check at www.xfree86.org, which is I think the primary free software X place, and neomagic wasn't mentioned; you can check xfree86.org to see if it's listed there under another name. They don't support X for Windows, but mention xtreme.it (X Appeal) as a commercial product. NT is supposed to be problematic on a laptop too, right? Or, you can always cash in a few shares & build another PC, $700 or so in parts for a 166MMX/TX chipset system, 32meg memory, 3-4gig disk. Sans monitor, but a cheezo 14" can be had for $150 or so, if you don't have any around to recycle, and it'd still look better that a laptop. Somewhat less portable, needless to say. Good luck on this one, I just don't know much about laptops. Cheers, Dan.

To: damniseedemons who wrote (14678)	12/6/1997 6:41:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Respond to of 24154

Sal, sorry I can't give you much input (I'm sure some of our thread techies will) but you may want to check out Caldera's Linux offerings, just a thought. Good luck caldera.com

To: damniseedemons who wrote (14678)	12/7/1997 9:58:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Sal, It being a laptop limits your options. Sounds like you have a screen res problem, a driver/linux problem, and possibly, a problem with your modem access being too slow for graphical X to be practical. Could you describe the machine further: 1. screen res/max pixel depth/external monitor? 2. memory? 3. ethernet plug? 4. speed? 5. disk available 6. CD? If you used x-client text only apps, you could use one of the x-client applications and not have to install unix on the laptop. Then you can just log in. After all, we once used text-unix over 9600 baud lines. But the items listed above could change the recommendation. Chaz