Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.
Ern jura wrote:> Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one > without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. > Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.Regarding hardware specifics, HP is a company that provides Linux drivers for all its equipment, so I would begin checking their products first.
Ern jura a ?crit :> Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one > without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. > Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.Here I have an ASUS, an HP Pavilion and an older Fujitsu Amilo D, all running CentOS 5.0 fine. Take a peek at http://www.linux-laptop.net to see if/how your hardware is supported. Unfortunately, at least here in France there's no ****ing way to have a laptop without Microsoft Windows installed. I'm 100% GNU/Linux since 2001 or so, but I must have paid for five or six licenses since. Cheers, Niki
> Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one > without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. > Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.I would love to find a Linux laptop that had good wi-fi support. Including WPA and using an integrated wi-fi adaptor. Having to edit a file to connect to a secure access point is not user friendly if you ask me. Matt
On Nov 10, 2007 1:48 PM, Ern jura <exjura at gmail.com> wrote:> Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one > without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. > Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.Toshiba P105-S6207 Wireless ------- Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) Works out-of-box including for WPA/EAP networks. Ethernet -------- Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller Works out-of-the-box. Performance seems REALLY good. Video ----- Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller Works out-of-the-box. Flash Card Reader ---------------- Card reader in front of laptop is a "Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)". This doesn't work of of the box on openSUSE 10.2 as they don't include the modules in the default kernel; this supposedly will change with openSUSE 10.3. But sussing out the required incantation and getting it up and running took only a few minutes. Go to http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tifmxx Get tifm-0.6b.tar.bz2 tar xjvf tifm-0.6b.tar.bz2 make make install To start it immediately - modprobe tifm_core modprobe tifm_7xx1 modprobe mmc_core modprobe mmc_block modprobe fm_sd
Ern jura wrote:> Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one > without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. > Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.From the linux journal review of this month: http://www.emperorlinux.com/ Lenovo ThinkPad T61 - linux version www.lenovo.com R cubed www.shoprcubed.com HPC systems www.hpcsystems.com Dell Inspiron 1420N www.dell.com/linux Also check: www.compamerica.com www.polywell.com www.thinkmate.com Ugo