HELP! Need a laptop for Linux Expo Tomorrow!

2007-08-04 Thread Phillip Waclawski
I had thought I could make it through the hands on tutorial Monday with the old linux laptop I had set up, but the video is basically dead. I would have loved to have waited for a review of the Dell Ubuntu laptops, but that is no longer possible, I leave sunday at 1:00pm, so... I need a laptop

Re: HELP! Need a laptop for Linux Expo Tomorrow!

2007-08-04 Thread der.hans
Am 04. Aug, 2007 schw�tzte Phillip Waclawski so: I had thought I could make it through the hands on tutorial Monday with the old linux laptop I had set up, but the video is basically dead. I would have loved to have waited for a review of the Dell Ubuntu laptops, but that is no longer

Re: HELP! Need a laptop for Linux Expo Tomorrow!

2007-08-04 Thread Joe Zagar
I have had great success with both Toshiba and HP laptops as long as they have Intel chip set including Intel Wireless. They worked with Ubuntu, SUsE, and Fedora 6, right out of the box. Joe Phillip Waclawski wrote: I had thought I could make it through the hands on tutorial Monday with the

Re: HELP! Need a laptop for Linux Expo Tomorrow!

2007-08-04 Thread Dennis Kibbe
On Saturday 04 August 2007 03:05:48 am Phillip Waclawski wrote: I had thought I could make it through the hands on tutorial Monday with the old linux laptop I had set up, but the video is basically dead. I would have loved to have waited for a review of the Dell Ubuntu laptops, but that is no

Re: HELP! Need a laptop for Linux Expo Tomorrow!

2007-08-04 Thread Alan Dayley
I second Joe's advice. My wife's Toshiba with all Intel chipset (wireless, video, sound all Intel) took the Linux install without a hitch. There was an extra binary blob to install for the wireless but that was easy. Alan Joe Zagar wrote: I have had great success with both Toshiba and HP

Re: HELP! Need a laptop for Linux Expo Tomorrow!

2007-08-04 Thread James crawford
I have had good luck with my HP DV5000 series with AMDs x86_64 and Ubuntu 7.04 x86_64 Plus ndiswrapper for the Broadcom 802.11. I second Joe's advice. My wife's Toshiba with all Intel chipset (wireless, video, sound all Intel) took the Linux install without a hitch. There was an extra binary