Hello, Just another post (so that others might find it by search) about an Ubuntu smooth run. Will be useful I guess for anyone looking to purchase an Ubuntu-friendly laptop...
Installed Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex (amd64 desktop edition but 32bit should be fine too) Linux on a coworker's new Acer Aspire 4730z laptop. Installation went fine and *everything* (LAN, video, sound, wifi, special buttons, trackpad, compiz effects etc) worked out of the box upon first reboot with absolutely no additional configuration/tinkering :-) Just wasn't able to try the card reader and the webcam was showing all-green picture in ekiga... I ran an update but wasnt able to reboot to check whether webcam might work better since we (coworker and I) were leaving for the day. Very impressed with this Intel-Montevina-based laptop... onboard Intel graphics (compiz effects work) and Atheros based wifi. - Vishal PS: Also saw on a tech forum post that Hardy 8.04 worked fine on this same laptop model. -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
