Re: AMD64 laptop FC3 install

On Saturday 20 November 2004 01:13 am, Adam bultman wrote:
> A friend of mine recently bought an AMD64 based HP pavilion laptop.
> He posted the breakdown on his web site:
>
> http://pokeintheeye.org/archives/2004/11/19/fedora_core_3_on_an_hp_zv
>5260us_laptop/
>
> Looks like it works, but it was a bit of a pain.
>
> I myself recently upgraded my Fedora Core 2 workstation to Fedora
> Core 3 - lot easier for older PII hardware.
>
> I'd recommend you guys play with Fedora Core 3; too many of you guys
> are going european with that SuSE stuff ;)

Uhmm... Suse is a division of Novell , a venerable US of A firm that has
survived the worst of the tech wars :)
But then again serious GNU/Linux users use Debian ;-) which is
incorporated in the US but has more developers outside the US.

>
>
> I'm thinking of going to AMD64 myself; but I still can't justify the
> expense (Sorry Stan, it's going to have to wait for a while until the
> prices come WAY down)

I was just looking at a vendor that sells MB + AMD64 cpu for $300, but
you can buy for less.

-- 
Greg Madden
Precision Air Balance, Inc.
Phone: 907-276-0461
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