[CALUG] Linux Friendly Laptops

[Jay]

I would recommend:
an HP Laptop and SUSE Linux

I had (& still have) a pretty good experience using
the above combination. I am using an HP Pavillion
DV1000 CTO laptop with SUSE Linux 10 and Windows XP
Pro dual boot setup and Suse being my main OS.
Installing SUSE is *easy* and painless and using it is
fun. It is more organized and polished compared to
other distros.(IMO)
I used Fedora and Debian before.

I had also been using an HP Pavillion zt 1270 laptop
(which I bought 3 years ago) with Suse versions 8.1,
9.1 and 9.2 (not simultaneously).

Dell laptops plain sucked the last time I saw them
with their stupid positioning of the keyboard keys, cd
player, I/O ports and everything. 

I am a Java/J2EE developer and a part-time
Solaris/Linux sys admin and SUSE had been a
*productive* and *fun* OS to use with all the
necessary tools (for Programming, Adminstration,
Entertainment).

Wait, if you can, for Suse 10.1 to come out this month
end, otherwise use Suse 10. As one caluger suggested,
instead of dual-booting, you can use VMWare with
either Suse or Windows being your primary OS or Suse
EvalCD to just try it out.

-Jay


--- 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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