Having run Linux on laptops for a decade there's only one strategy that has worked reliably for me, and it results in very, very stable operation:
Go through every hardware component and make sure that it has support in the kernel.org kernel. In particular, you are interested in wireless network support and video support. You will no doubt be able to make other hardware work, but your experience will be unlikely to be long term stable. Binary blob drivers, especially, are likely to work for a while and then stop, leaving you wondering what happened and digging around in random user forums looking for a solution. That, to me, is not acceptable. I'd much rather put in the time up front at a time when it's convenient for me, than have my machine go out unexpectedly. In general, Intel components are very well supported. In general, cheap laptops do not work well. Dave On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > Anyone have experience with this laptop running Linux, mainly CentOS > or Ubuntu, though all reviews are most welcome. > > Thanks. > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa > _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
