[dundee] Linux Laptop

Lee Turner lvturner at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 11:09:05 BST 2008


For routers

I have one of these:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-052-LS

Although I haven't got round to flashing the firmware yet :)

2008/6/17 Nistur <nistur at googlemail.com>:

> I have the same Dell Inspiron mentioned above and would also suggest this
> as a good choice. In general Dell laptops (and PCs) I've had all have very
> good Linux compatability. I don't know whether it's still a possibility any
> more but I know you used to be able to get some money back if you didn't use
> the preinstalled version of Windows... was that from the supplier of MS?
> Also there's obviously the Linux Dell laptops, The Inspiron TM 1525 LINUX
> (N0652515) seems to be nice and cheap and not a bad laptop. Of course it
> ships with Ubuntu but assuming it's all supported, installing Slack should
> be no problem.
>
> I've also used Linksys in the past for routers and have found them to be
> good.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:45 PM, John¹ <seago.john at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Monday 16 June 2008 16:26:07 Digit (SG) wrote:
>> > pricewatch.com  ...it's handy just for getting a gauge on the prices of
>> > things...
>>
>> I'm afraid that the spec seemed to meet the bill of web mail and browsing
>> with a minimum screen size of 14", so I' ve ordered one of these:
>> http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NNB-587 withiout the
>> operating system. this means I may be yelling for help to get Slackware
>> into/onto it, but as others think it runs well with Ubuntu and That came
>> with this issue of "Linux Format", Im not too worried at the prospect.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions. It was the
>> uk.comp.os.linux newsgroup that pointed towards this particular product.
>> --
>> John Seago
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