[svlug] svlug Digest, Vol 312, Issue 19

[Thomas Carlson]

Tony,

I've had really good experience with my HP DV1000 laptop. It is based
upon the centrino offering from intel. The built in video chipset does
the 3d stuff pretty well too. :) 

Make sure to use a newer version of whatever distribution you choose.
eg. Fedora Core 5/6, Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 or OpenSUSE. All three
seem to run quite well with support for hibernate and sleep. 

The wireless card works fine after downloading the firmware and putting
it in /lib/fw or whatever directory it needs to be on your distro of
choice. 

At LinuxWorld, Lenovo was touting their laptop shipping with OpenSUSE on
it. HP had a blurb about supporting Debian although I couldn't tell if
that was for laptops or not. I bet Debian SID( the cutting edge Debian
flavor) would work pretty well. 

Brian Hardbarger was one of the folks working for Lenovo.
hardbar at us.lenovo.com 

Have fun and enjoy! :)

Cheers,

Thomas


On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 12:00 -0700, svlug-request at lists.svlug.org wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:07:01 -0700
> From: "Tony Cappellini" <cappy2112 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [svlug] Recommendations for a Linux-friendly laptop
> To: svlug at lists.svlug.org
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> My laptop died last night, so I am looking for replacement. The intent
> is to
> have a Linux-XP dual boot machine.
> 
> If anyone has some advice for Linux-friendly laptop models around
> $1000 or
> less, as well as vendors in San Jose and surrounding areas,
> I would appreciate any advice.
> 
> I'm looking for these features as a minimum,
> 
> wired Ethernet, 2 USB 2.0 slots, DVD writer, 1GB ram with expansion
> capability (for running VMware), 2 PCMCIA slots, and a 80-100GB HD.
> 
> 
> Thanks
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