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

[Chris Smith]

I got my ThinkPad (T23) second-hand about 6 months ago. Once I'd added a bit
more RAM (upped it to 768Mb) the machine has been rock solid - in both
senses of the word. So, one more vote for big blue.


On 11/5/07, Russ Hay <russellh at ysmail.net> wrote:
>
> 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
> >         friendly
> > To: "Gloucestershire LUG" <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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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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