I gave my old Compaq Presario laptop to my wife, and I need a new laptop to use for my teaching (I teach Unix, Linux, C, and C++ at a local university) as well as for BLU meetings. My presonal requirements are: Brand: must be HP (or HP/Compaq) OS: SuSE Linux 10.0 or possibly VMWare with SuSE running as the primary OS. Chip: AMD-64 (While I work directly with some Intel people, I want 64-bits on the laptop). Screen size: I prefer 15in or better, but 14in would be ok. Memory - would prefer 1 or 2 GB because I want to be able to run a couple of different distros simultaneously for the courses. I've looked at the following models: L2000, DV8110US, DV5120 and dv5140. I've found Linux reviews of the L2000, but not the DV8* or DV5* models, though the DV8110US from eCost seems to have some very good features. I'm not concerned about installing ndiswrapper for the Broadcom wireless. Many of the HP Compaq n series business notebooks are officially certified by SuSE, but those notebooks tend to be more expensive, but there are a bunch that are available refurbished or excess new. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
I have a HP/zv6007 running (openSUSE 10.0) fine! In fact I have one problem... When the battery is almost empty (20% loaded) my laptop freeze! but, you can check laptos in: http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Laptops/HP http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Laptops/Compaq hope this help regards, _________________________________________________________ Lawrence Ferreira AIX, HP-UX and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Administrator LINUX User (openSUSE-10.0 & SLES9) #271016 LPIC-1 - Linux Certified Professional Jerry Feldman wrote:
I gave my old Compaq Presario laptop to my wife, and I need a new laptop to use for my teaching (I teach Unix, Linux, C, and C++ at a local university) as well as for BLU meetings. My presonal requirements are: Brand: must be HP (or HP/Compaq) OS: SuSE Linux 10.0 or possibly VMWare with SuSE running as the primary OS. Chip: AMD-64 (While I work directly with some Intel people, I want 64-bits on the laptop). Screen size: I prefer 15in or better, but 14in would be ok. Memory - would prefer 1 or 2 GB because I want to be able to run a couple of different distros simultaneously for the courses.
I've looked at the following models: L2000, DV8110US, DV5120 and dv5140.
I've found Linux reviews of the L2000, but not the DV8* or DV5* models, though the DV8110US from eCost seems to have some very good features.
I'm not concerned about installing ndiswrapper for the Broadcom wireless.
Many of the HP Compaq n series business notebooks are officially certified by SuSE, but those notebooks tend to be more expensive, but there are a bunch that are available refurbished or excess new.
On Friday 31 March 2006 9:56 am, Lawrence Ferreira wrote:
I have a HP/zv6007 running (openSUSE 10.0) fine!
In fact I have one problem... When the battery is almost empty (20% loaded) my laptop freeze!
but, you can check laptos in:
http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Laptops/HP http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Laptops/Compaq Thanks lawrence, Those were the URLs I was looking for. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 09:43 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I'm not concerned about installing ndiswrapper for the Broadcom wireless.
Many of the HP Compaq n series business notebooks are officially certified by SuSE, but those notebooks tend to be more expensive, but there are a bunch that are available refurbished or excess new. The nx6125 is, I think, well priced for what you get. I have the ML-34 model (not the newest any more). For price vs. features it outpriced everything else on the market except some cheapo brands that I don't
Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but I haven't been able to get the ndiswrapper/broadcom combo to bridge with the vmware device, so my virtual machines can't see the rest of the network when I'm on wireless (but they can see each other). trust. I have a 15.1" 1400x1050 display, Radeon X300 graphics (Quake4 capable!), 1GB RAM (it can take 2), DVDRW (+/- and DL), 80GB 5400rpm/8mb disc, firewire, USB2, PCMCIA type II, one of these newer Express card (newer generation PCMCIA type slot), card reader that can read more types of card than I knew exists, onboard gigabit LAN, built in wireles (broadcom, unfortunately, but it can be replaced), fingerprint reader, bluetooth, and, last but not least, 56k modem, all of which is supported. SUSE 10.0 64bit was not entirely happy, but it basically just comes down to version of the kernel and other essentials and their (lack of) support for these newer hardware, but a few updates should sort it out. I'm running gentoo now, newest version of everything, and all is working 100% except skype (which worked 100% in SUSE - go figure). Hope it helps! Hans
On 4/1/06, Hans du Plooy <hansdp-lists@sagacit.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 09:43 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I'm not concerned about installing ndiswrapper for the Broadcom wireless.
Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but I haven't been able to get the ndiswrapper/broadcom combo to bridge with the vmware device, so my virtual machines can't see the rest of the network when I'm on wireless (but they can see each other).
On my laptop, I have set up my VMWare systems to use the NAT interface (vmnet8). THey all live on a different subnet of thier own (172.16.226.*), but they cal all reach the internet as well as other machines on the network that the laptop is. Now it does not matter if I use the wireless or Ethernet interface on the laptop, the virtual machines stay the same and have access to whatever network the laptop have. HTH -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.co.za ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 09:43 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I'm not concerned about installing ndiswrapper for the Broadcom wireless.
Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but I haven't been able to get the ndiswrapper/broadcom combo to bridge with the vmware device, so my virtual machines can't see the rest of the network when I'm on wireless (but they can see each other).
Many of the HP Compaq n series business notebooks are officially certified by SuSE, but those notebooks tend to be more expensive, but there are a bunch that are available refurbished or excess new. The nx6125 is, I think, well priced for what you get. I have the ML-34 model (not the newest any more). Thanks Hans, I ended up buying the nx6125 (ML-37) before I saw your post. it has what I need, and I know that SuSE will run on this very comfortably, although
On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:04:53 +0200 Hans du Plooy <hansdp-lists@sagacit.com> wrote: the other HP models should work ok. Another advantage is that all my coworkers have some form of HP N series. The only drawback to the model I bought was that the HD was 60GB, and I would have preferred a bit more, but that should be sufficient. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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