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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] Laptop Problems
From:       Juan Quintela <quintela () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-02-24 16:04:02
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>>>>> "si" == SI Reasoning <sczjd@yahoo.com> writes:

Hi

sniff, if things was so easy ....

si> I couldn't agree more. It would be a lighter kernel to
si> boot since you could disable alot of options that are
si> just not used on a laptop (such as raid, ham radio,
si> most pci/isa network cards, etc)

nope, each person decides that it use its laptop as it wants :(((((
Some people are network administrators and use the laptop to go to the
rack and see what things are working and what not (i.e. they want
token-ring and similar other strange things).  There is SCSI PCMIC
cards for laptops, and just now everybody can have a cd-burner in its
laptop (aka you need scsi support).

si> It would also lighten the load on the standard kernel
si> since you could remove laptop related issues such as
si> pcmcia, etc.

there was _big_ cryes, when we told people that smp kernels didn't
have pcmcia, people bougth a new server (it is SMP), it is the router
of the compny, and they put there a PCI-PCMCIA card for putting
wireless in the office.  The issue here is that you (or me by the
matter) should not told people what they can/can't do.

si> I think it is an obvious choice and Mandrake could
si> brag about being the only Distro that caters to
si> laptops!

Things are improving ..... only that slowly.

Later, Juan.


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In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

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