[ale] Laptop recommendation

Michael B. Trausch fd0man at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 14:33:56 EDT 2005


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Cor van Dijk wrote:
>
> My Sony VAIO is on the way out. Can anyone recommend a laptop
> that's linux-friendly. Thanks in advance.
> Cor van Dijk
>

My Thinkpad T41 does quite nicely with it.  Modern Linux systems support
all of it's hardware except for the built-in WiFi, out of the box.  In
order to get WiFi support you need to use the Madwifi drivers, which are
fairly trivial to add.  :o)

	- Mike
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