[ale] Linux on Laptops

[Chris Woodruff]

I have had good luck with the Sony Vaio laptops.  Also know people that
have Dell laptops and they are great with Linux.  The best thing to do
is investigate before buying.

My Vaio had some issues but with a few searches on google I found
someone who had all the kernel mods to get around the USB issues.
Overall for the money I like Sony.

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Chris Woodruff
PrimeHarbor Technologies, Inc.
www.primeharbor.com
cwoodruff at primeharbor.com
(770) 307-8590


-----Original Message-----
From: John LaPierre [mailto:jjlapierre at knology.net] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 11:54 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Linux on Laptops


Geoffrey's Omnibook post prompted me to post this message - 

Last December I bought a Toshiba Satellite 5005-S504 notebook. And for
the 
stock XP Home Edition it worked OK. But of course I had to put a real OS
on 
it. Well, I did not do my homework. A simple Google moment would have
steered 
me away from the Toshiba Satellite 5000 series altogether. They are
'legacy 
free', read "no bios access". The only bios access is through an applet
that 
will only run in Windows XP. How convenient for M$. So just to install
linux, 
I have to download several patches, compile my kernel a certain way, and
then 
I get almost full functionality. 

To make a long story short, if you are looking for a Linux friendly
laptop, 
look beyond the Toshiba 5000 - 6000 series. There is also a class action
suit 
being brought against Toshiba for a flaw in the design of this series
that 
causes overheating and shutdown every few minutes. I thankfully have not
had 
that problem, but many hundreds have and they're organizing now.  

http://putland.linux-site.net/mailman/listinfo/toshiba-5005
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toshiba5005/

I will be giving this laptop to my daughter when she leaves for college
this 
August, so if anyone can recommend of a Linux friendly laptop that I can

replace it with, I'd be grateful. Thanks...

jj

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