On 02/04/2011 01:28 AM, [email protected] wrote:
For example: Ubuntu didn't support the ACPI battery monitor in recent
toshibas until extremely recently (maybe 10.10?). Was it fixable if you
kluged up your own kernel? Sure. Was that something that coexisted
well with ubuntu? Not so much. There are _definitely_ distro-specific
support issues.
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The real point: Anyone getting a new laptop would be well served by
doing some googling and seeing how well the kernel, and kernel options,
of their distro of choice supports it.
100% agreed. On the Thinkpad side of things there is a great community
website for Linux on thinkpads - http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
which gives you invaluable information on what people have found works
and doesn't.
-Sean
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