MIKE MacMartin wrote: > > I was wondering if there was any laptop vendors that officially > > supports > > linux? > > Eurocom.
I suppose you're referring to this: http://www.eurocom.com/support/linux/comchart.htm... Err - that's not my idea of official support... All I can see are a few lame installation notes (they even dropped testing with Mandrake, it's now RH 9.0 only) and unsolved problems I suspect would simply go away if they tried hard enough and/or used different components. SuSE has a list of "certified hardware" that includes notebooks from Fujitsu-Siemens, Dell and others, but even those certifications contain a few caveats (mostly unsupported winmodems). Even IBM, no matter how busily deploying Linux on servers, didn't continue their former Linux notebook line. They were putting OpenLinux on ThinkPads at a time, and maybe SCO wouldn't have set their legal chihuahuas on their heels if those A and T models had actually sold well... *grin* So if you can't get official support, all that's left is the assumption that just about every piece of hardware out there should be supported by the right kernel configuration. The only way to be absolutely certain of a given laptop's compatibility with Linux seems to be buying one with Linux preinstalled. Here's a list of vendors shipping those, from the top of my head (or my bookmark file, more precisely): http://xtops.de http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lc2000.html http://www.aslab.com/products/laptops/laptops.html http://www.emperorlinux.com http://qlilinuxpc.com/products/laptops/index.html http://www.kachinatech,com/US/portare.html And my personal favourite, the yummy Apple PowerBooks with dual-boot Mac OS X and Gentoo preinstalled: http://qlilinuxpc.com/products/apple/index.html Cheers Ulrich Plate
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