James Knott wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 16:27 -0500, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
Hi List!
I need your advice more than ever :-)
Finally I saved some money for a laptop. The main thing is that I'm windows free almost two years now, so I really want/need to run Linux (openSuSE) on it.
I was thinking between Lenovo ThinkPad T61 (which was discussed earlier here in the list and seems to have good compatibility with opensuse) and Sony Vaio VGN-FZ4000.
Sony looks much fancier, and actually cheaper than lenovo, but there is no much info about linux friendliness. It's on the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT and WLAN 802.11 a/b/g/n w/Integrated Bluetooth wireless (and I really need wireless working). Is there any known issues with those? And in general maybe you know if there is any major issues with Sony?
Not for me. I use a Sony laptop. There is Sony-specific support in OpenSUSE that detects it is a Sony and loads a few things. With 10.3, I simply installed it and it 'just worked'. Wireless and all. Of course, every model is different, But I would buy a Sony again to use with Linux.
There's also ThinkPad specific support in OpenSUSE.
Lenovo ships at least one model with Novell/SuSE Linux pre-installed: http://www.linux.com/feed/127261 FWIW, in January I got a Levono 3000 N100 - OS-Free, from a small local shop. With a few notes from me, they installed OpenSuSE on it successfully first try. They mostly support Windows. Actually, wife of the owner works directly with Balmer. At the moment that laptop is dual-bootable to give me a test image, and runs Compiz just fine. Wifi & camera not running yet because I haven't tried. Today's mucking about is Skype, which came right up in test, so time to install on the production image. Everything works - sound, auto detect flash drives, finds and sets up the printer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org