New laptop
Posted: 2007-11-10 13:42:25

Hi all,

Yesterday I became the proud owner of a new Dell Vostro 1500 and what's the best way to celebrate this? Right, install Gentoo... Winking icon

So after some thinking I decided to go for the no-multilib amd64 install, since if I'm desperate to see, for instance, a flash movie, I can still use my old laptop. Anyway, it seems that open source flash alternatives are getting better each day, so that might solve the problem eventually. Yesterday I did the stage 1 + 2 part and installed a kernel so it could boot properly without the livecd. (yes, I still like to bootstrap... Biggrin icon) Today I installed xorg and I'm now busy compiling all the KDE packages I want. So that pretty much leaves me waiting for it to finish.

To end this post, here are the specs:

  • Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 (2.2GHz, 4MB)
  • 2GB RAM
  • 160GB 5400rpm hd
  • Nvidia 8600GT 256MB
  • 15.4" TrueLife screen (1280x800)
  • Some other stuff, NIC, Wi-fi etc. which is less important

So far I'm very happy with it!

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Name: Brian | Website: http://briancarper.net | Posted: 2007-11-10 22:18:17

I have the same Laptop (I got a smaller HD and crappier video card, but the 1680x1050 screen size). I like it a lot. I've been afraid to put Gentoo on it so far, sadly I need Windows for work.

It's not an AMD, so how does amd64 work on it?

Name: Sander Knopper | Website: http://www.knopper.tk | Posted: 2007-11-10 22:31:23

The architecture is called amd64 because AMD was the first one to extend the standard x86 ISA with 64-bit extensions. Though the recent Core 2 Duo processors (some earlier models as well) have 64-bit extensions too. So basically, don't let the name make you think it's made only for AMD cpu's.

Name: Brian | Website: http://briancarper.net | Posted: 2007-11-11 20:51:46

I didn't know that. Interesting.

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