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
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Well, I thought this might help. I am currently using a Dell laptop to run RedHat 7.3 beta 2 and its running great. During installation i had no hardware problems whatsoever. Infact, Dell even has its own Linux Tech Support by Phone helpline if u need some help. I tried to get the same distro to work on my friend's Sony laptop running an AMD Duron 800 Mhz machine but the install kept failing due to hardware incompatibility. Probably i screwed something up while installation though. Hope this helps. Orca
On Monday 06 May 2002 10:12 pm, Nikhil D. Kikkeri wrote:
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
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Hi,
you can try Kenneth Harkers site for Linux on Laptops
inbtw: i run SuSE 8.0 and a chroot Gentoo 1.1a on my Laptop i.e a Sony Vaio F590 no issues with hardware or pcmcia for me.
I would reccomend a later distro ... so that you get all the latest and greatest
Best Regards Prakash Shetty http://crux.sf.net
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikhil D. Kikkeri" nikhil23@hotmail.com To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:42 AM 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
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--- Prakash Shetty pshetty@gmx.net wrote:
inbtw: i run SuSE 8.0 and a chroot Gentoo 1.1a on my Laptop i.e a Sony Vaio F590 no issues with hardware or pcmcia for me.
aarggh! what happened to your lovely libretto???
:-) kishor
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Hi,
Well had some issues with hardware on it had to give it away :-(
Was too good ... until it lasted :-)
Best Regards Prakash Shetty
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On Tuesday 07 May 2002 21:17, kishor bhagwat wrote:
--- Prakash Shetty pshetty@gmx.net wrote:
inbtw: i run SuSE 8.0 and a chroot Gentoo 1.1a on my Laptop i.e a Sony Vaio F590 no issues with hardware or pcmcia for me.
aarggh! what happened to your lovely libretto???
:-)
kishor
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
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