You can look up specific laptop models on this page and see what you have to do
to make it work:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
--Mike
It looks pretty staightforward as far as the Linux install.
Linda Carpenter wrote:
> I'm the proud owner of a Toshiba 410CS laptop... (finally) and it is a fine
> laptop... except all the utilities and drivers are written for win95
> (ick)... I'd really much rather put linux on it instead... is this a good
> idea or am I looking at a path that is more of a hobby than a professional
> solution... I'd much rather write code and do email than try to fix the
> patches and solve undocumented API's...
>
> if it is a reasonable solution, which distro should I get???
>
> LindaC, sending smiles to everyone...
