I own Compaq Presario 1700XL370 I know all this series is abit problematic with network and modem drivers but I seen all new compaqs react quite good at rh7.3/8.0 Besides... Its nice to be prepared when you buy a notebook but I don't know of any un-willing-to-install Linux kind of notebook It might be little hard work to compile some drivers to modules and stuff , but you got urself a guaranteed learning experience
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alon Weinstein Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 12:44 AM To: Shachar Shemesh; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Linux supported laptop anyone? > I'm looking to buy a laptop that supports Linux. I'm not so picky > about the bundled Windows XP problem, as I'm going to need a MS O$ on > it If you have positive experience, please let me know. I'm looking > for something mid-low end (read - cheap). > I own an IBM Thinkpad T21. I installed Red Hat 7.3, Red Hat 8.0 & SuSE 8.0 on it -- all three installations were the easiest Linux installations I did -- the only thing I had to do was press "next" "next" "next" and that's it. All the hardware was auto-detected, everything works great -- video, sound, DVD, network, modem. Everything. The only thing I never did was make the Ultrabay work (the DVD is hot swappable with a floppy drive, and I think a module needs to be installed for the hot swapping to work correctly), but I think it's supported, as IBM is a supporter of Linux. All Thinkpads come with bundled Microsoft OSs (W2K/WinXP) and an installation CD containing the OS and drivers. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
