[SWLUG] "Best" laptop for Fedora Core 5?

[James]

Mines an HP Pavilion dv5000z, and it works very well with Linux - even
the wireless card, which people seem to complain is a problem area for
laptops and Linux.

I have not tried it with Fedora Core 5 though, but Ubuntu 6.06, and Suse
10.1 run flawlessly.

Mark Summerfield wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to buy a laptop to run Fedora Core 5 and was wondering if anyone
> has any comments/advice, or has a laptop running FC5? I'll be making it
> dual boot because although I do all my work under Linux I have to test
> cross-compiled stuff on Windows. (I'm looking to get 60+GB disk, 0.5GB
> RAM, 1280x800 screen, and don't mind a "slow" processor.)
>
> In the past I've used a Toshiba which was fine, and a Fujitsu which was
> fine but had a v. short life (2+ years). I have an old Panasonic which
> still works after 6+ years (but new Panasonics are too expensive
> unfortunately).
>
> Thanks.
>
> PS I've been following the discussion about distros for newbies. I
> recently trashed my machine so tried various distros from scratch:
> - Kubuntu 6.06. Easy to install from DVD, looks good and works fine
>   (apart from the microphone in my case). But suffers from the problem
>   that has put me off Debian-based distros: you either have the standard
>   stuff which often has libraries and apps which are slightly too old;
>   or you add "universal" (or testing if using pure Debian) and end up
>   with a system that doesn't work.
> - OpenBSD. Not Linux of course, weird way of handling the disks; looks
>   great if you want a console based system, but you need to be more of a
>   sysadmin than I am.
> - OpenSUSE 10.1. Boots great of the live DVD, but when I entered install
>   it doesn't actually give you anthing that says "install me on your
>   hard disk".
> - Fedora Core 5. I've used FC4 for the past year and although yum and
>   Pirut are nowhere near as good as apt-get and Adept, whenever I
>   updated everything worked. The only annoyance for me is that the
>   openoffice cursor blinks (which makes is almost unusuable for me): it
>   didn't under Kubuntu. Wasn't easy to install: despite verifying the
>   DVD it hung everytime it started installing packages. Solution was to
>   burn CD1 and install from that, and when it asked for CD2 put in the
>   DVD.
>
> (BTW Earlier this year I asked about broadband and people's response
> was: "get a router". I followed the advice and am glad I did, since it
> was v. easy to set up. It is a BT Voyager 2110 and I get broadband from
> plus.net--too early to comment on whether they are good or not.)
>
>
> --
> Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd., www.qtrac.eu
>
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