Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding is the third. -- Marge Piercy
People like either laptops or desktops. I like to work with laptops rather than with desktops. I like Linux too. My first HOWTO is the Linux/IR-HOWTO about infrared support for Linux. Also I have written some pages about Linux with certain laptops: Olivetti Echos 133 DM (together with Kurt Saetzler), HP OmniBook 800CT, HP OmniBook 3100 (together with Friedhelm Kueck) and COMPAQ Armada 1592 DT. But I don't claim to be a laptop guru, I just had the opportunity to install Linux on some laptops and I simply want to share the information I collected.
This document isn't ready yet. If you like to write a chapter or even a smaller part by yourself, please feel free to contact me. Also your suggestions and recommendations are welcome. But please don't expect me to solve your laptop related problems. Please read all according manual pages, HOWTOs and WWW sites first, than contact the other resources mentioned below.
Many times I have mentioned MetaLab formerly known as SunSite. This site carries a heavy load, so do yourself a favor, use one of its mirrors http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html .
For Debian/GNU Linux the mirror URLs are organized in this scheme http://www.<country code, e.g. uk>.debian.org .
Since I don't own a non-Intel based machine, this HOWTO might not contain all the details for non-Intel systems or may contain inaccuracies. Sorry.
This text is included in the LINUX DOCUMENTATION PROJECT http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP .
The latest version of this document is available in HTML format at http://www.snafu.de/~wehe/index_li.html .
Richard Worwood mirrors this HOWTO at http://www.felch01.demon.co.uk/Links/links.html .
A similar HOWTO written in french by Lionel "Trollhunter" you may find at http://www.ie2.u-psud.fr/~bouchpan .
Werner Heuser <wehe@snafu.de>