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Yay for Fedora!

C"mon Jimmy...don't leave us in suspense! What're the specs?

In the meantime - what do you have under the hood of that Gentoo box of yours coder?

What model laptop? I'm considering getting a low-end Dell laptop specifically for FC3 and I'm curious about any hardware issues.

Well she's no gaming machine, so nothing special. It's a gateway 200xl
1.6 centrino (same motherboard used by Alienware for their mobile laptop)
1G ram
DVD burner
integrated wireless G
80G hard drive
very thin and light at about 4lbs? with the battery, which will last by itself for about 6-8 hours. (it was the portability that was the real kicker for me)

Actually she's a duplicate to my first laptop. I just liked the one so much I bought another. This one for *nix exclusivly.
There are still a lot of issues to work out, getting the drivers for the wirless working. S video working and all, but that's the fun of it. Fordora seems pretty nice though, so far everything has been a breeze on the install. If I can get the WINE emulator working like I want it I might be able to phase out windows for both work and home.

@doug
This is the link that I'm going off of right now to set mine up. It's a different laptop but the same motherboard. If you can find something like this for what your buying your good otherwise it's just going to take a lot more legwork.

Nice machine - I'm sure it is flying with fedora - so you are a laptop kinda guy eh?
Personally, I've been desktop danny for most of my life - probably due to comign from a graphic design-type background, but I recently got my first laptop from IBM.

Quite nice to sit outside on the roof of my apartment with an internet connection... As you well know, some nights in the spring/summer, the city of Chicago could be the most beautiful place on earth... *could be*

ahhhh.. i have been discovered.. i like the new epithet too medianox

and of course fedora core 3 rocks.. no hardware issues to present as of now though. in fact the debain based ubuntu has hardware issues with my monitor but fedora is just smooth sailing

Nox, where are you at? I'm over in the Wicker Park area right now, just moved into a new place. God I love the city sometimes. Sure, you have to deal with the ambulance sirens all night, the L tracks, and the general ill demenor of the city population now and again but it's worth it when your riding in toward the city at night taking a look at those towers all lit up and thinking to yourself, "Yeah, I freaking live here and that's gotta give me some rep++"

I've been a laptop guy for some time now, ever since college really. I didn't take books to class, I took the company laptop and the rest was history. These days as a consultant I might go into a place and they have some crappy little workstation set up for me, but the tools I need are never on it and you have no idea what really is. It's a much better feeling bringing your own. Stick wireless on top of that and your out on the back porch with some drinks and some friends and having the best time of your life.

Let me know if your in town, I'll buy you a beer sometime.

JimmyGosling - a hipster of Wicker Park. Whoda thunk it?

I'm moving to Logan Square area (california-sh and Fullerton) in about 10 days, currently I'm in an apt. in Oak Park (where I work), which is super lame because it's a dry village. I only have to walk two blocks into the west side to hit the bar, but it's so freakin ghetto over there. In fact, my building's super ghetto, too :/.

I'm looking forward to Logan Square b/c I was able to get a super-nice 3br with the woman 20 yards from the fireside bowl - beers and bowling and the wireless connection being emitted from my new apt. = beautiful things.

As far as grabbing a drink - sure thing... I'll PM you sometime after I move. I'd love to nerd it up over a fine weisen or two or three... etc.

@beckham: You're elusive, but the Man U. zealotry tipped MarkisDee off who tipped me off. Consider your guise spent!

Seems my lot in life. Someone told me the city was going flat, send in the Gos.

Logan Square is a good place, and Oak Park, yeah, your right about that too. I was looking at a condo down there just a few months ago. Stepped out of the car, looked around, stepped back into the car. I mean I can take care of myself, but the thought of some drunk buddies wandering around after a party in the neighborhood wasn't enticing.

With the woman huh? Hopefully you've still got your man card stashed away somewhere.

I'm a Guinness man myself, but you choose your own poison. lol

Thanks for the info, Jimmy! If I get the Dell I'll post how things went with Fedora. Right now I have an older Toshiba Tecra 8100 with Fedora, everything went farily smoothly except I have to turn off acpi on bootup, and the sound is fried in the laptop so every time I hit anything with sound it locks up The sound is a hardware problem, it was broken in windows too.

I'm running Windows+FF, I'm wanting to add Linux on soon.

^^ i reccomend you try mandrake 10 as a good beginner os, or if you like debian (portage systems) then ubuntu is not bad. If you want to go the live linux way (which is the best way to learn the basic) then get knoppix, elearnix (or something like that, i cant remeber right now) or PCQlinux.. all good. also take a look at DSL (damn small linux) embedded, its a linux distro you can run from within windows. very awesome. You can also do the same with knoppix btw.

Ok...don't say I didn't warn you!

1.2 GHz Athlon Thunderbird (133x9, 256 KB L2 cache, 64KB L1/I + 64KB L1/D)
Spacewalker Mainboard (VIA VT8363-686, Socket A)
256 MB PC133 SDRAM (1 DIMM)
ATi Radeon 9200 Pro (128-bit bus, 256MB DDR400 VRAM, 2x AGP)
Samsung SyncMaster 500s (1152x864 @ 60 Hz)
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 (120 GB, 8 MB cache, UDMA/133)
Quantum Fireball AS20.5 (19.7 GB, 2 MB cache, UDMA/100)
NEC PCI USB2.0 Hub (4 ports)
PCI Linksys 10/100-baseT Fast Ethernet Adapter (not normally used)
Intersil Prism II 802.11b Wireless PCMCIA through a Ricoh PCI cardbus
Generic Gateway keyboard, A4Tech USB Optical wheel mouse
Gravis Blackhawk analog 3-axis/4-button joystick
Plantronics USB DSP500 digital Headset
Antec 300W PSU
Antec E-ATX case with 4 fans (2x120mm and 1x80mm in rear, 1x120mm in front)
Sony 40x CD-ROM (2MB cache, UDMA/33 )