Mark Elkins wrote: > Sean > > Even though a staff discount is available is this Acer laptop the best you > can buy to run Ubuntu? It might actually be a better to buy a Dell (or other > make if you can get it) with Ubuntu pre-installed. > > The reason for this advice has been covered on the Dorset LUG before - > basically that it can be very time consuming and close on impossible to get > everything working - due to the complex components used in laptops as > opposed to desktop pcs. For example internal wireless cards on laptops are a > particular problem. > > Mark Elkins > Chair and Treasurer > OSSG > > This is not true anymore. I haven't seen Ubuntu fail to discover all the components and configure them correctly. They really have spent much time sorting the wireless side. The worst case scenario for wireless is you pay $15 to linuxant for their excellent driverloader software and it just works. There are still too many people spreading the FUD (fear, uncertainly, doubt) even with the Linux community which doesn't actually match the reality of a modern Linux distro.
John. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Discover Linux - Open Source Solutions to Business and Schools http://discoverlinux.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ irc://irc.blitzed.org:6667/dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-04-01 20:00
