I have had a good experience with Toshiba so far. I would recommend to find a few affordable laptops, and then google them with the Distro she would like to run, and see if anyone on "<font size="-1"><span class="a"><b>linux</b>-on-<b>laptop</b>s.com" has experience.<br><br>My particular Toshiba is running retail Suse 10.0, and everything worked out of the box. If I remember correctly, Atheros wi-fi drivers were dropped out of the code stream above 10.0 on Suse, and would have to be added manually to get your wi-fi card working. <br><br>I would recommend using the above site for the details on the install and hardware with the particular laptop, and go from there.<br><br>Hope this helps<br><br>Daniel Parraz<br></span></font><br><b><i>keith smith &lt;klsmith2020@yahoo.com&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Dell always has nice stuff at a low price<br><br><span style="width:
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 is looking for a laptop to run Linux.  <br>Unfortunately I'm not the best person to make a recommendation on what <br>to buy since I don't run Linux on any laptops.  I have set it up before <br>for our customers and even got things like sound, full X support, and <br>wireless working (sometimes).  What I lack is the ability to say "buy <br>this" and be confident that my recommendation will have minimal problems.<br><br>Here is her description of what she wants: "I am looking for a minimal <br>laptop.  The purpose of the purchase is to have a machine that I can <br>take into class and demonstrate LINUX commands, utilities, etc as well <br>as development of C and C++ programs.  Quite honestly, I would like to <br>spend as little as possible."<br><br>It should be able to connect to our wireless network and be fairly <br>capable, but other than that there are not any special considerations.<br><br>If  anyone has any recommendations I'd appreciate
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