On 2014-07-18 19:49, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
On Fri Jul 18 14, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
On 2014-07-18 14:19, Bob Holtzman wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:52:05AM -0700, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
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>>From my experience Dell is Linux friendly. I'd double check if it
>>will run Linux though.  I think the new HP's will not.
>
>Reason?

I think it has something to do with the bios. I have a 4.5 year old HP laptop that runs Linux, however it is my understanding the new ones will
not.

Are you talking about uefi? That shouldn't be a problem.


I do not recall. It has been about a year. I was going to buy an HP laptop and either someone on the list told me it would not run Linux or HP told me so. I did not buy the laptop.






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>>Last year when I bought a new Dell workstation. After telling them I
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