[Gloucs] Re: Brands of Laptop computers that are Linux friendly

[Russ Hay]

I've always been happy running Linux on any T-series laptop from IBM (or
Lenovo as they are now!). Slightly prejudiced as I'm an IBMer - but trust
me, we don't get any worthwhile internal discounts!

They tend to have allot of driver support from the community, and there's
always thinkwiki if you have questions over unsupported hardware - which is
the main advantage over getting a cheap laptop from Asda/Walmat and taking
your chances with the hardware.

Russ.



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> Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 19:21:21 +0000
> From: "Brian Wilkinson" <bcla.wilkinson at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Brands of Laptop computers that are Linux
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> I'm writing this on my Acer Aspire 9420, on which I currently have
> installed
> Fedora 7, although I have previously used Ubuntu - which is better at
> things
> like knowing about laptop volume keys but apart from that they are both
> brilliant. I haven't got the built in webcam working yet, but I'm not
> bothered about that. This is not necessarily a low-end laptop but if it's
> any indication of Acer products then you should be OK.
>
> On 01/11/2007, John Kilgour <wj.kilgour at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am thinking of getting a reasonably low end Laptop computer. Which
> > brands
> > are Linux friendly?
> > Thanks in advance.
> > John Kilgour
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