Incoming from Owen Stenseth:
> > > I am looking to get a new notebook maybe Dell maybe not I don't have a
> > > ton of cash but it has to be able to run Linux. Can you guys suggest
> > > some hardware please? What's with XGA and SXGA? does it make a
>
> One thing that you can do is take a knoppix CD with you and ask to
I've heard that some places refuse to let you do that. They don't
know knoppix and think you may be trying to infect the thing.
Other resources worth trying include:
- Werner Heuser's tuxmobil.org; he has a lot of
laptops/portables/handhelds info on line.
- http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
Big Blue gets a lot of praise these days. IBM's Thinkpads handle
Linux well.
Mine's a Dell Inspiron and it's been a great machine. They
specifically refused to sell it to me without Windows. I doubt this
has changed since then.
One thing to be careful with is high-end video. Are you going to want
hardware GL/3D for games? That means nvidia. That means you go with
the generic Linux/XFree86 "nv" driver, or the proprietary Nvidia
driver, and that last means a kernel recompile. ATI appears to be
trying to keep up but I haven't heard a lot of praise for their
attempts.
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