Re: Laptop

["Tim Grossner" <tgrossner@lunarhosting.net>]

I did some research and found that all in all, I wanted things like a
large screen, built in wireless, and cd-burning...since this is a
desktop replacement it seemed to make sense. So I found that Mandrake
installs fine on the Toshiba Satellite P25-S477 and went with it. Its
good so far, though I haven't added linux yet, I probably will this
week.

Thanks for the input!


-----Original Message-----
From: luci-discuss-owner@luci.org [mailto:luci-discuss-owner@luci.org]
On Behalf Of Benjamin Story
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 11:27 AM
To: luci-discuss@luci.org
Subject: Re: Laptop

I've tried linux on a few of my company's junk laptops and have found
that Dell's work "ok" out of box, but that you usually have to hunt
down patches for the power management stuff.  Right now I'm using
Mandrake 9.1 on a HP evo n800c and have everything but the power
management working.  The only thing that I had to do custom was
download the newest linux-wlan release to get the multiport 802.11b
card to work (it uses the prism2_usb driver).


On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:30:40PM -0500, Tim Grossner wrote:
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a laptop brand/type that has
good Linux
> compatibility? I am thinking of getting one and want to ensure I have
the
> option of running or favorite OS.
> 
> ___________________________
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tim Grossner
> 
> tgrossner@lunarhosting.net
> 

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