[ale] Laptop and linux

[James Taylor]

First, get SUSE 10, it will support laptops about 1000 times better than
9.2.

 I've had excellent results with the ThinkPads I've owned, but I'm
currently using a Sony Vaio VGN-A290 for my everyday notebook. 
Everything I use works well, but there are some soft switches that use
windoze drivers that I haven't felt necessary to get working.

The biggest problem I had was getting the wide screen working right
with the ATI 3d drivers (worked ok with the open source,
non-accellerated...).
I helped a colleague with another Vaio, I don't know the model but it
was tiny, and had to install a program to add the correct aspect ratio
to get a full size display.

I've used live trial CD's on a number of HP and Toshiba LTs and they've
worked fine, in general.

When I bought the Sony I brought my live trial CD and tried it on every
LT I was interested in before I bought this one.

-jt
 

James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
http://www.eastcobbgroup.com


>>> timtw at earthlink.net 12/13/05 5:26 am >>> 
Hi,

I'm considering a laptop and I want to dual boot it w/ Linux/XP (or at
least 
have an XP image I can boot into a la VmWare). What models are
particularly 
well/poorly suited for this? Any vendors who can build this for me? Any
linux 
distro's better for this than others (I have SuSE 9.2 on my current
tower 
which I bought from Monarch; I got pretty good svc from them although
they 
only seemed to have 1 linux guy who was "part- time" at that)?
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