Linux Links

This summer I finally got Linux loaded onto my Toshiba 410CS laptop, after four tries and holding out RedHat 5.1, which is so easy to install it even has instructions in Redneck. I really haven't done a whole lot with it, except read mail and surf the Net. Even THAT had to wait until someone with more on the ball wrote a driver for my Xircom PC modem/Ethernet card, the one card not supported by the Linux community since Xircom wouldn't release its data while Linux hackers were in a mood to write drivers for the other 999 cards on the market. When I get around to it I'll try to get the sound working so I can play CDs and RealAudio files. If I'm REALLY feeling ambitious, I'll start playing with perl5. Sorry I don't have more to tell. But here are some really good Linux for laptop links:

The Linux home page. Not sure if this is up.
Linux Documentation Homepage. The other big cheese, and it doesn't freeze my browser
Red Hat 5.1. Easy to set up. Buy it.
More Linux links! Which sorta makes this page redundant, I guess.
Linux On Laptops. Great page! If it ain't here, it probably ain't anywhere.
General laptop info.
Linux on Toshiba 410CS. A little old, but has good info. Keep handy when installing Linux, especially the part about the scan rates.
Xircom driver development. La lucha continua
PCMCIA CARD SERVICES HOWTO. RedHat 5.1 card services include the Xircom IIps CEM33.6/10Mb Ethernet driver, but these pages came in handy for setting up and understanding it all.
A patch for reading Macintosh Hierarchical File System files. I haven't loaded it into my kernel yet.
Netatalk is for putting a Linux machine on an AppleTalk LAN.

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