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    there's lots of sites dedicated to giving linux help to existing laptop owners, but i'm backwards. i'm looking to buy a laptop, and i'm looking for one that will have good linux hardware support.

     

    the biggest question is this:

     

    what mobile video chips have hardware accelerated linux drivers?

     

    ati and nvidia, i know, any others?

     

    i wanna buy an older laptop, probably pre-geforce20go

     

    linux certified (http://www.linuxcertified.com/) sells a model for $500, but i'm not looking for anything pre-installed or with a warranty, or probably even that new. well, maybe about those specs.

     

    Quote:

    IBM Thinkpad 600 [Refurbished] - LCTP2

    Intel Pentium II/400 MHz

    160 MB ram

    10.0 GB

    13.3" Active Color (1024x768)

    24x internal CD-ROM

    PCMCIA Ethernet Card

    Internal 56k

    Pre-loaded Red Hat Linux. Custom install with both GNOME and KDE desktop environments. Linux distribution included.

    Warranty: 45 days. Upgradable.

     

    i'd likely be ebaying for said laptop.

     

    back to the main question,

     

    are there any video chipsets of this age with available hareware-accelerated linux drivers?

     

    i don't even know when ati hopped in the mobile market, perhaps they had one.

     

    thanks.

    -john

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    linux can do this, but i doubt that clustering is what you want.

     

    clustering is used to distribute processing.

     

    many distrobutions of linux install apache, the super-awesome open source webserver, by default. using this, video4linux, and a webcam program, any of the machines (assuming compatibility with webcam... usually pretty good) can serve webcam images.

     

    as for music, i guess you want to take storage from each of them and make one big virtual drive. this may be a little tricky.

     

    it wouldn't be too hard to have a few seperate storage volumes, one for each machine.

     

    for example, on your wireless device, you could have mounted (NFS or Samba or something else) :

     

    /mnt/mp3a

    /mnt/mp3b

    /mnt/mp3c

     

    and then web browse your way over to

     

    http://192.168.0.3/webcam

    http://192.168.0.4/webcam

    http://192.168.0.5/webcam

     

    or you could even have one sort of 'main' computer, and mount the others from it.

     

    /mnt/mp3/a

    /mnt/mp3/b

    /mnt/mp3/c

     

    and

     

    http://192.168.0.2/webcam1

    http://192.168.0.2/webcam2

    http://192.168.0.2/webcam3

     

    and you could even have all three (or more) images show up on one page

     

    i know that linux can span hard drives into one big volume, and i would expect that through the same means you could span network mounts, but i have no experience here.

     

    -john

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