[ale] Dell laptop - recommendations?

[Geoffrey]

griffisb at bellsouth.net wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm considering picking up a Dell laptop from Dell Financial Services
> off e-bay. My sister writes grant proposals and is in need of a
> desktop or laptop. So I was thinking of spotting one for her.
> 
> What would you use as a basic spec machine for writing grant
> proposals? I was thinking of installing Knoppix to the hard disk, and
> running the most current OpenOffice, and just set up Konqueror and
> KMail for Internet stuff.
> 
> Are there drivers for the modem? Is KPPP fairly straight-forward? Any
> models I should absolutely avoid? I might also see what IBM has to
> offer, but the budget is limited.

Check out the Dell's emperorlinux uses, they'll list what they've got 
working and what's not.  If the one you're looking at matches one of 
their's you'll be in pretty good shape.


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