Duncan Lithgow wrote:
Having looked around on the net I couldn't really find much about
whether any manufacturers of laptops are more linux friendly than
others. I have to buy a new one, good specs, so I'm trying to do the
right thing and support good manufacturers. The only useful things I've
heard are that ATI have opensource drivers - good, and I can see that HP
have started selling laptops with linux on. Is that a few extra points
for HP?
Anything to make my laptop hunting mission easier would be appreciated.
At the moment I can't really narrow the field enough to start checking
specs of individual components.
Oh, and I'm not in the US, I'm in Denmark, so I want a major brand not a
US only one <http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html>.
You asked more about manufacturers than about individual laptops, but I
only am familiar with the one that I bought. I have a Sony Vaio TX650P,
and it is working very well under Dapper. It was a bit harder to get
entirely working under breezy, but I attribute that to the relative
newness of the hardware.
FYI, it has:
Intel HDA sound
Intel i915 graphics
Intel IPW2200 wifi
Bluetooth,
Firewire,
PCMCIA
The only thing it has that I haven't gotten working is the Memory Stick
port, but I haven't really tried all that hard... It also has a
cellular modem, but I don't feel like subscribing just to see if I can
get it to work. I did see a forum post by someone who did so on Breezy,
though.
-Matt
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