I see Linux laptops advertised in my Linux magazines all the time. A little googling yeilds this: http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html
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On Monday 22 January 2007 16:10, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
I see Linux laptops advertised in my Linux magazines all the time. A little googling yeilds this: http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html
Personally, my favorite laptops are IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads. I've never had one that didn't work great with linux, and I'm on my fourth. LinuxCertified sells them, but they're twice as much as ordering direct from Lenovo. Sure, if you order from Lenovo you have to pay the microsoft tax. Although I think I remember reading somewhere you could order them with no OS, or preloaded with Linux even direct from Lenovo.
Rich
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 01:44, Rich Edelman wrote:
On Monday 22 January 2007 16:10, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
I see Linux laptops advertised in my Linux magazines all the time. A little googling yeilds this: http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html
Personally, my favorite laptops are IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads. I've never had one that didn't work great with linux, and I'm on my fourth. LinuxCertified sells them, but they're twice as much as ordering direct from Lenovo. Sure, if you order from Lenovo you have to pay the microsoft tax. Although I think I remember reading somewhere you could order them with no OS, or preloaded with Linux even direct from Lenovo.
Thinkpads use undocumented and unsupported hardware. :(
On Monday 22 January 2007 22:14, Luke-Jr wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 01:44, Rich Edelman wrote:
On Monday 22 January 2007 16:10, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
I see Linux laptops advertised in my Linux magazines all the time. A little googling yeilds this: http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html
Personally, my favorite laptops are IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads. I've never had one that didn't work great with linux, and I'm on my fourth. LinuxCertified sells them, but they're twice as much as ordering direct from Lenovo. Sure, if you order from Lenovo you have to pay the microsoft tax. Although I think I remember reading somewhere you could order them with no OS, or preloaded with Linux even direct from Lenovo.
Thinkpads use undocumented and unsupported hardware. :(
I guess I don't understand how you get unsupported from 'works great'. The ONLY thing I've had a problem with on a thinkpad is the ACPI buttons. I can see undocumented, as the ATI Mobility chips that are a graphic option are 'undocumented'. But not unsupported.
Suspend to disk/ram and even resume work fine. I can take the laptop out of the dock without shutting down and the system doesn't miss a beat.
Hell, even the fingerprint scanner on the new models work great with linux. Google libthinkfinger.
Except when I ran gentoo, I've never had problems getting any part of any of my Thinkpads to work.
So please, explain.
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 04:39, Rich Edelman wrote:
Personally, my favorite laptops are IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads. I've never had one that didn't work great with linux, and I'm on my fourth. LinuxCertified sells them, but they're twice as much as ordering direct from Lenovo. Sure, if you order from Lenovo you have to pay the microsoft tax. Although I think I remember reading somewhere you could order them with no OS, or preloaded with Linux even direct from Lenovo.
Thinkpads use undocumented and unsupported hardware. :(
I guess I don't understand how you get unsupported from 'works great'. The ONLY thing I've had a problem with on a thinkpad is the ACPI buttons. I can see undocumented, as the ATI Mobility chips that are a graphic option are 'undocumented'. But not unsupported.
In particular, I was referring to the wireless in my T41.
On Monday 22 January 2007 22:48, Luke-Jr wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 04:39, Rich Edelman wrote:
Personally, my favorite laptops are IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads. I've never had one that didn't work great with linux, and I'm on my fourth. LinuxCertified sells them, but they're twice as much as ordering direct from Lenovo. Sure, if you order from Lenovo you have to pay the microsoft tax. Although I think I remember reading somewhere you could order them with no OS, or preloaded with Linux even direct from Lenovo.
Thinkpads use undocumented and unsupported hardware. :(
I guess I don't understand how you get unsupported from 'works great'. The ONLY thing I've had a problem with on a thinkpad is the ACPI buttons. I can see undocumented, as the ATI Mobility chips that are a graphic option are 'undocumented'. But not unsupported.
In particular, I was referring to the wireless in my T41.
I don't have a T41, but the wireless in my X31 is a CIsco Aironet, and in my T42 is centrino-based. I don't have problems with either one.
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