We're looking for a laptop to run in a 10,000', cold, occasionally wet environment, and it needs to run CentOS 5. Perhaps something like the Dell Latitude E6400 ATG? There's a reference to a minor trackball bug for the 6400 under CentOS 5 (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4192) but otherwise it sounds like the x86_64 version should run on it. Ideally the system would use a SSD too. Any suggestions?
Jim Davis wrote:
We're looking for a laptop to run in a 10,000', cold, occasionally wet environment, and it needs to run CentOS 5. Perhaps something like the Dell Latitude E6400 ATG? There's a reference to a minor trackball bug for the 6400 under CentOS 5 (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4192) but otherwise it sounds like the x86_64 version should run on it. Ideally the system would use a SSD too. Any suggestions?
panasonic toughbook, one of the serious ones with the ip65 rating, like the 19 or the 30.
IBM Thinkpads are quite "strong" in th sense that they are very sturdy and have titanium casing. Not rugged as such but I have travelled with an X30 all over the place and it has been thrown into taxis, fallen down stairs... still boots ;-)
On 15 April 2010 23:53, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
Jim Davis wrote:
We're looking for a laptop to run in a 10,000', cold, occasionally wet environment, and it needs to run CentOS 5. Perhaps something like the Dell Latitude E6400 ATG? There's a reference to a minor trackball bug for the 6400 under CentOS 5 (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4192) but otherwise it sounds like the x86_64 version should run on it. Ideally the system would use a SSD too. Any suggestions?
panasonic toughbook, one of the serious ones with the ip65 rating, like the 19 or the 30.
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john maclean wrote:
IBM Thinkpads are quite "strong" in th sense that they are very sturdy and have titanium casing. Not rugged as such but I have travelled with an X30 all over the place and it has been thrown into taxis, fallen down stairs... still boots ;-)
it was the wet part of '10000 feet, cold, and occasionally wet' that led me to suggest the ip65 rated toughbooks
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