grass 5.0 on laptops

[Malcolm Williamson]

Rob,
I'd venture to say that the main issue here is getting Linux to run
happily on your laptop, rather than GRASS specifically. I'd recommend
the "Linux on Laptops" page for recommendations and information on that
front (http://physics.open.ac.uk/~rpblake/linux_laptop/). Basically,
getting X-Windows running on notebook displays can be a challenge, but,
if overcome, then you're mostly home free. I haven't upgraded to 5.0
yet, but 4.2 runs happily on my Sager NP9703H (300 mhz AMD K6-2, 64-meg
RAM).

Best regards,
	-Malcolm

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Rob Britts wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently running the GRASS v4.3 on my desktop, but I will be going back
> to graduate school this fall.  I was wondering if any GRASS users have had
> luck running this v5.0 software on a Linux based laptop, and if so what
> configuration, make of computer are you using?
> I would like to have the mobility of GRASS on a Linux laptop in graduate
> school, in addition to the network lab computers I'll have access too.
> 
> I would greatly appreciate any comments, and please contact me "off-list" if
> need be it...
> 
> Sincerely,
> Rob Britts
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