[Nottingham] Re: Nottingham Digest, Vol 108, Issue 5

[martin lowther]

Not sure that the caps were justified, an honest mistake and I expect im not
the first to do it.....

Anyway advice on laptops....

Sony Vaio - I would tend to steer clear of these as a Linux newbie as they
have some proprietory stuff such as non-standard resolutions and screen
sizes. (In particular the small ones). Also some of the smaller laptops do
not have a removable media and generally will not boot external devices
unless they are sony drives.

IBM Thinkpads - Have found these support linux very well, IBM work hard to
qualify all their kit for linux. I would go with the Flagship T-series or a
good X-series.

Dell - Crappy build quality but generally ok performance and most stuff
works straight out of the box.


I can provide kernel config files for most thinkpads if required.....

Have found Ubuntu good for a serious linux user as well as newbies, even
sound works out of the box....
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