On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:26:53AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to > do well with Linux. > > Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this? > > Michael >
Thinkpads: my experience was good for linux. I had an X20, which is really slim (CDROM and Floppy were both external), and Mandrake ran beautifully on it. It eventually died when I tried to put OpenBSD on it (I don't know if that was fixed or not, but a BIOS issue in the thinkpads 4 years ago would kill it immediately if you format the disc for the BSD native format). One of my friends, however, has a T series thinkpad, and it runs Gentoo fine, except that no matter what she does it would refuse to boot into a 2.6 kernel. Couldn't figure out why. Dell: works great. My D600 runs Gentoo since the first day I got it. They used to have some BIOS/firmware issues with ACPI, it might be fixed by now. W -- "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. " Sortir en Pantoufles: up 4 days, 10:54 -- [email protected] mailing list
