[CALUG] Linux Friendly Laptops

[Worsley, Christopher]

HP machines are fairly Linux friendly, including laptops and tablets.
The official list of supported machines & distributions is here:
http://www.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/certifications.html. You'll notice
that the list appeals to corporate users (hence the prominance of RHEL &
Novell). 

In practice, you'll find that even more than those models listed enjoy
support and most distributions work great.

For instance, the machine I'm using now is a recent hp nc6000 laptop
which runs Fedora Core 4 and Ubuntu Breezy Badger. By default, Ubuntu
uses hostap drivers so the built-in Atheros WiFi chipset was recognized
right away.


> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:58:25 -0500
> From: Eric Gosnell <eric.gosnell at embedded-sys.com>
> Subject: [CALUG] Linux Friendly Laptops
> To: lug at calug.com
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> 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