Well, if I were going to buy a laptop right now, I'd buy an Asus. The 8k series has nearly 100% GNU/Linux supported hardware. The Good: 12.2-14.4" TFT Active Matrix Screen ATi Rage LT Pro 4mb AGP (XF86-3.3.5, XiG LT) 4.5 lbs. (~2.1kg?) 4-Hour Li-Ion Battery ESS Maestro-2 Sound (Supported by ALSA 0.4+) 3.5-8gig (=<8mm form factor) ATA33 Disk 24x CD-ROM or 6x DVD-ROM Floppy can be installed *with* CD 32-160mb of RAM The Bad: Most models have 56k Lucent HSP modems. Asus is tight-lipped about which NIC chipset they use. Only one Type-II PCMCIA slot. The Ugly: Some lower models use SMI video chipset, which requres a frame bufffer X server and kernel. CompUSA on the 'States Mainland advertised one last week with the 13.2", Celeron 366, SMI video chip, 3.2g disk, and 24x CD for $999 US. -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | SuSE Linux 6.2 super-suser@eudoramail.com | Kernel 2.2.10 Kansas City, Missouri, USA | AMD K6-2 350 Moderator of LUG-KC@onelist.com http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/lug-kc On Wed, 29 Sep 99 09:31:38 G Tony Lambley wrote:
Hi all, I'm after a pure linux based laptop (i.e. no doze), but I've heard that there can be problems with this. So before I get the new hardware I thought I'd ask the experts.
I've got suse6.2 installed on a desktop and ideally would like the same dist on a laptop. I recall that dell are shipping some in the US, not much good to me in the UK though.
Anyone have a working system, any advice or "don't touch:" lists?
I'll reckon that I'll be using X most of the time.
Thanks,
T.
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