Toughbooks

[ubinhad]

I have six Panasonic tough books. My favorite one, "this one" is a "CF-C1" it's old. It has dual hot swapable batteries. A very big plus for me. Wife has it's clone. Mine has just about everything you can get for one. Even the thumb print reader on the screen frame. The only thing I don't like is there is no built in DVD R/W and no HDMI. It truly is tough, this one was knocked off a table and fell thirty two inches to a tile floor. Not the lenoleum tiles hard rock of some kind. Landed on the top right corner of the monitor. Small chip there. Three key caps flew off and I could not figure how to replace them. However I was able to use it without the caps until new keyboard came in. The machine was on and running when it hit the floor. HD is fine. Mine is running Fedora-23 with no twiking at all to install. Wife is running Fedora-25 even better. I have some later model Tough books that I like the handles on and have DVD internal. All have plugable hard drives and replacing a hard drive in the caddy requires no tools. You can purchase extra caddies, "some what expensive" and have pluggable hard drives with optional configurations, OS's etc. I have them but have not needed any OS other than FC-23 for my daily work. I do run a VM machine boots to Kali Linux. So since VM does the job I don't have an extra drive. I may build a drive dedicated to Kali Linx though as the VM is pretty darn slow. That might be more obvious on mine as I also run full disk encryption. I may look into a two partition system where my sensative data is on the encrypted partition and everything else on a plane ole EXT4 system. That might or might not give me some extra speed. If anyone has done this and noticed an improvement please enlighten us. Happy Linux computing everyone.