[buug] wireless

John de la Garza john at jjdev.com
Thu Mar 27 01:35:00 PST 2003


Maybe I should just run linux on my powerbook...


On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 08:18 PM, Rick Moen wrote:

> Quoting johnd (john at jjdev.com):
>
>> Don't have it yet.  I am considering buying a Dell and want to make 
>> sure
>> it is going to be a good linux laptop.
>
> Yeah, well, good luck.
>
> Dell is infamous for playing games with rebranding of other people's
> components, and concealing the information from the public.  (They're
> trying to sell people on the notion that you don't need to know what's
> in the box; you supposedly need only know that it's a Dell.)
>
> Laptops are, in general, easily the most problematic category of x86
> machines for *ixes.  The main recommended strategy is to AVOID buying
> brand-new models of anything, and stick to ones that have been out long
> enough to have known-good Linux/*BSD support for all of their chipsets.
> Ergo, when I wanted to buy a laptop, I researched which ones were very
> well tested, and then found one used, via eBay.
>
> See also:
> http://www.linux-laptop.net/
> http://tuxmobil.org/
>
> -- 
> Cheers,      "Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills 
> the first
> Rick Moen     woman she meets, and then teams up with three complete 
> strangers
> rick at linuxmafia.com       to kill again."  -- Rick Polito's That TV 
> Guy column,
>               describing the movie _The Wizard of Oz_
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