On 8/1/06, Harv Nelson <ai9nl at arrl.net> wrote: > what is the current lap top of choice for linux. full debian install. of > course price will be a prime consideration. I plan to carry it in the truck > and use mostly for mobile Ham radio communications. > > thanks > > Harv Shop ebay.com, materialsprocessing.com (surplus store) or ibm.com ("certified used equipment") for a slightly older Thinkpad. Remove the hard drive and get a CF/PCMCIA adapter and as big a CompactFlash card as you can afford. I believe you can get up to 4 GB cards now, which should be plenty for linux. I'm running a healthy Debian install on a 4 GB hard disk partition on my laptop and it's only using about 2 GB. Enter the laptop's BIOS and configure it to boot from PCMCIA. Install linux to the flash and you have a solid state machine that will fair much better than any hard drive in a vehicle. scot