[CALUG] Linux Friendly Laptops

[Rick Radzville]

I advise against Dell. I have an Inspiron 1100 that I set up to dual boot,
XP Pro & Red Hat 9, before I found out I couldn't get a Linux driver for the
NIC. :( I've had a GREAT experience w/Panasonic Toughbooks, esp. the CF-51 &
the CF-18. I installed Ubuntu 5.9 or 5.10 on the CF-18 and "everything just
worked", including the onboard wireless NIC. And it currently tripleboots
between XP Tablet, 2003 Enterprise, and FreeBSD 6.0.2. I definitely
recommend it.

Rick

On 3/1/06, Danyelle Gragsone <ladynikon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> yea, have fun setting up your wirless :-) i took me about 8 hours to get
> > my ndiswrapper working correctly
>
> It really depends on the card and finding the correct driver.  Only
> took me 5mins with my broadcom g card.
>
> On 3/1/06, william kelly <william.kelly.jr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > that was on a toshiba a4
> >
> >
> > On 3/1/06, william kelly <william.kelly.jr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > yea, have fun setting up your wirless :-) i took me about 8 hours to
> get
> > my ndiswrapper working correctly
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/1/06, Danyelle Gragsone < ladynikon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Usually your older laptops will be more supported than your newer
> > > > ones.  I have a gateway 450sx4 and ubuntu and gentoo ran fine on it.
> > > > I have it dualbooted with windows/ubuntu currently.
> > > >
> > > > On 3/1/06, Eric Gosnell < eric.gosnell at embedded-sys.com > wrote:
> > > > > I am saving up to buy a laptop.  I want to use Linux as my primary
> OS.
> >  (I will
> > > > > dual boot so I can still have Windows based games, Visual Studio,
> > etc.)  Are
> > > > > some laptop manufacturers better at providing Linux drivers for
> their
> > hardware?
> > > > >  What do you recommend?  Second, are some distributions better for
> > laptop
> > > > > support than others?
> > > > >
> > > > > (I am only slightly better than a novice at Linux
> administration.  I
> > am a
> > > > > developer and I use it frequently at work.  This is my attempt to
> > force myself
> > > > > to become more adept at it.)
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Eric
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Eric N. Gosnell
> > > > > Embedded Systems Design, Inc.
> > > > > 6810 Deerpath Road, Suite 300
> > > > > Elkridge, MD 21075
> > > > > 410-712-7290 (voice)
> > > > > 410-712-7291 (fax)
> > > > >
> > > > > eric.gosnell at embedded-sys.com
> > > > > Voice Mail ext. 223
> > > > >
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