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Re: [SLUG] Recommendations - Laptop / Notebook Running Linux (RH62)
Gday
I have a Dell Inspiron 3700 running RH6.2 which was upgraded from 6.1.
Works like a dream ! Dell released drivers for the 10/100 3com network
card and the funky on-board sound.
I did have to downgrade XFree86 from 3.3.6 to 3.3.5 becasue it had
issues with the screen.
Its got a 14.1 inch screen that runs in only 1024X768.
One other nice note is that my HDD's bearing dropped and i just about
got industrial deafness from listening to the hard drive spin for a few
days until i rang Dell on the thursday arvo and told them my HDD is
stuffed they did a few peliminary tests (ie take out the HDD, start up
the machine) and confirmed it was stuffed and the VERY NEXT DAY at about
10:30 am i had a brand new HDD on my doorstep and 10 working days to
swap them over and send the faulty one back.
By All accounts, very professional.
Matta
David Sainty wrote:
>
> Hi people,
>
> I'm after a new Linux (naturally) notebook. Should be decent specs
> (14-15" TFT, 128MB RAM) Can anybody recommend a recent model which:
>
> - Can be bought without Windoze pre-loaded?
> or
> - Can be bought with Linux pre-loaded?
> or
> - Works well in Linux (with XFree86 3 or 4, sound, modem, etc)?
> or
> - Has support from the manufacturer w.r.t. Linux?
>
> Why is it that buying a decent notebook with Linux still isn't
> _easy_? <sigh> One day. :-)
>
> David S..
>
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