Buying a Linux Laptop

seek · 02-18-2005

Want to buy a new or used laptop to run linux. Mainly want it for wireless tools/applications.

Anyone recomend a particular model/distro combo that works well?

Thanks

Seek

Chris · 02-18-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by seek

Want to buy a new or used laptop to run linux. Mainly want it for wireless tools/applications.

Anyone recomend a particular model/distro combo that works well?

Thanks

Seek

http://www.linux-laptop.net/

seek · 02-18-2005

Great Link ty.

Seems power management and wifi are usualy things they cant get to work

Found a few preinstalled with custom OS..but not really what I looking for.

Seek

The Others · 02-18-2005

This is also a good site,

http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html

beakmyn · 02-18-2005

I've gotten Linux to run on just about every laptop I've installed in on. Except my main laptop at home (Sager 8886). It's got a weird firewire chipset that locks up everytime I try to boot.

If you stick with using an Orinoco card then you shouldn't have a problem getting wireless to work.

Hibernate and suspend can be flaky in Linux depending on the mannufacturer. My current laptop only has APM and only so that I can see the battery power and turn the screen off.

Sager 8886 - ran without firewire support
HP Omnibook - weird issue with screen frequency in X (high pitched noise)
Pasonic Toughbook 266mhz - No problems
Digital Hinote 1000mhz - No problems

The determining factor may be based on what window manager you plan on using KDE and Gnome are memory hungry bastards and the latest versions don't run well on anything below 450mhz and 128mb ram.

Something like Blackbox will run great with as little as 32mb

seek · 02-21-2005

Found these on the web

http://www.linare.com/linare-linux-notebook.php

2 types of linux pre installed notebooks running Linaire for 500-600 US.

Going to do some research but they dont look that bad.

Seek.

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02-18-2005	#3 (permalink)
seek Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 18	Great Link ty. Seems power management and wifi are usualy things they cant get to work Found a few preinstalled with custom OS..but not really what I looking for. Seek

02-21-2005	#6 (permalink)
seek Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 18	Found these on the web http://www.linare.com/linare-linux-notebook.php 2 types of linux pre installed notebooks running Linaire for 500-600 US. Going to do some research but they dont look that bad. Seek.