[NCLUG] linux laptop

[Kevin H. Olson]

On 3/16/2011 11:59 PM, Michael Milligan wrote:
> Degutan White wrote:
>> I've heard Zareason:  http://zareason.com/shop/Laptops/
>> System76 (local to denver)  http://www.system76.com/index.php?cPath=28
>> and Lenovo for a linux laptop.
>>
>> Thanks for all the comments.  I still need to investigate the PGP full disk encryption.  Let me know if any of you have tried that on ubuntu.
> Haven't tried that, but Ubuntu can do native full-disk encryption, but a
> bit tricky to setup.  Google is your friend.
>

I would recommend investigating a hardware based encryption over
software. The speed difference can be substantial. I have an IBM Laptop
with a hardware encrypted hard drive that works great, and I definitely
recommend it.


>> Is there a camtasia-like software that anyone on the list is using?
>>
> You can use ffmeg from command line, which can do H.264 video and AC3
> audio (with appropriate libraries), or for Theora/Ogg output,
> gtk-recordmydesktop works without much fuss.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
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