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Comment on VPS moved to the US! by Julien

Julien — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:05:43 +0000

Thanks for welcoming me so warmly

Comment on VPS moved to the US! by Thomas Asaro

Thomas Asaro — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:46:15 +0000

Welcome aboard — let us know if you need anything!

Comment on Ubuntu 8.10 as a guest in VirtualBox by Jim

Jim — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:11:40 +0000

I’m experiencing the same problem as Shek and Goran. Mouse grabbing works great, but I still can’t set my resolution higher than 800×600

Comment on Ubuntu 8.10 as a guest in VirtualBox by Goran

Goran — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:54:50 +0000

Thank you, Julien
My host is Ubuntu 8.04, virtualbox 2.0.4 on amd64, and I had the same problem. It did get solved by adding vboxvideo as a driver in xorg.conf. I didn’t experienced mouse problem - grabbing works OK.

Goran

Comment on Downtime by Julien

Julien — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:00:40 +0000

I have finally rent a VPS from Linode.com
For now, I am very pleased by their services. Reactivity is very correct, I feared that SSH connections would be slow from France.

I will hence test if I can move my servers to the US…

Comment on Laptop as desktop computer replacement by Julien

Julien — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:53:37 +0000

Thanks for all your answers. After a few days thinking again at it, I am now pretty sure I will keep my desktop computer. The main advantage is that I can upgrade it on a regular basis, according to my needs and my financial means. Buying a laptop, even if suitable for today, would mean changing it in a few years.

Again thank you for all your advice!

Comment on Laptop as desktop computer replacement by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:37:27 +0000

“laptop”. You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

But yeah, various vendors make huge “laptops” in the 17″-19″ range.

Comment on Laptop as desktop computer replacement by Tim

Tim — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:36:48 +0000

Oh, and posted above by someone else, you can solve the small screen by using dual head, which is trivial these days (except that the Intel drivers in Linux currently don’t let you use Compiz on such a large combined screen size, which is a driver limitation not a hardware limitation, slated to be fixed after the next release of X). I also have a real mechanical switch keyboard so when at my desk I don’t rely on the laptop’s keyboard, and it’s small screen is just a secondary screen. In other words, think again about the portability of your laptop, because you can solve the small screen problem with dual head.

Comment on Laptop as desktop computer replacement by Tim

Tim — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:29:11 +0000

If you want it to be 100% Debian free, then you will need to be careful about the video. Lower-powered laptops can be 100% Intel, which means 100% free drivers (I have a little u400 Toshiba which is fast and powerful, with a 330 GB drive (decimal GB); it’s great, but it has only a small screen (pros of small screens are Intel graphics and easy use on public transport). Debian (lenny) works great. I don’t think there is a better OS for this hardware.
Larger screens will move you into non-Intel graphics. You will probably need to use proprietary drivers. The NVidia drivers are reliable. I have a desktop with NVidia and the free drivers don’t work with suspend/resume. You might have more luck, but expect to use the closed drivers, and be assured that at the user experience will be good.

Summary: get as much Intel hardware as you can, and if you have to go proprietary graphics, stay with NVidia.

Comment on Laptop as desktop computer replacement by cstamas

cstamas — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:08:04 +0000

I recommed one of the Thinkpad R series.