On Monday 23 July 2007 23:14, Mick wrote: > If your local Dell distributor can't/won't get it for you, can't you > import it from the US? Of course, it may take a tad longer to arrive > and you will have to pay some import tax.
I had been considering the Inspiron 1520 which I believe is (or will be) available in Linux versions. But the waiting time is approximately a month - too long - prices can change (go down) a fair bit in a month. Another model I considered was the Aspire 5572AWXMI which is apparently discontinued but had been available from some SE Asia outlets pre-installed with Linpus so driver compatibility shouldn't be a problem. In the end I went for a Thinkpad Z61. I've yet to install gentoo on it - still cleaning the windoze partition, removing useless programs and shrinking/backup the partition etc. But I've tried a number of livecds and all the major components are supported (wifi, cardreader, usb, lan, video, pc card, modem, sound, bluetooth). The only thing I'm not sure about is the IEEE1394, I don't have any devices to test it, but dmesg reports it's "working". -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
