I have used Redhat 7.0 and currently using Mandrake 8.2 on my Dell Inspiron 5000e. No problems reported @ all. I had also installed Mandrake 8.0 on a spare Compaq Presario 1800 XL. That was fine too, but I vote for Dell.
Cheers, Shishir
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikhil D. Kikkeri" nikhil23@hotmail.com To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 07:42 Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Buying a Laptop to use Linux
hi,
i am planning to buy a laptop to use Linux on it.which brand among the present breed offers the best support for Linux with respect to hardware compatibility. are there any up-to-date resources on the web which i can look into.
also just as an after thought i am just curious as to how the Apple Powerbook which has the BSD core and the Mac interface compare to a normal laptop running Linux. my curiosity stems from the fact that its my guess that the Mac OS X would allow me to run most of the GUI based programs available for Linux or BSD and at the same time allow me to use M$ products for the Mac like MS Office (well... all us still use a little bit of M$ everyday)
regards NDK