Re: Prospects for finding Linux compatible Laptops?

[Mike Connor <mikec@silug.org>]

Hmmm, I don't have that crystal ball, though it'd be my guess that 
companies big enough to economically make there own versions of chipsets 
 and big software group to write drivers for them will probably 
churn out the most crap.  The ones that are big enough to 
have names, but not big enough to make a custom funky chipset and/or 
afford lots driver programmers/testers will probably be the most okay.

Just looked-- a guy had a very easy time with a Toshiba A15-S129 (current 
product). 

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Jonathan wrote:

> Thanks Mike:
> 
>  I guess my biggest concern is: Are the newer laptops becoming less
> Linux compatible ? 
>  I have looked at these two sites that give very up to date install
> instructions for laptops:
> 
> TuxMobil:
> http://www.tuxmobil.org/
> 
> The FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List
> http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
> 
> Also there is www.powernotebooks.com 
> 
> >From these sites all that I can tell is that the newer laptops have no
> drivers for there winmodems and that in many cases ACPI is not working.
> Furthermore, the 9XXX series ATI video cards seem difficult to
> configure. Will this situation improve in the next 18 months?
> 
> On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 22:46, Mike Connor wrote:
> > www.linux-laptop.net has comprensive lists of brands and models with what 
> > someone had to do get each to work.  Some will will give patches to get 
> > various things to work.  Last I looked (a year ago), it looked like 
> > Toshibas were easier.  Dells can vary widely.
> > 
> 
> 
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