Looking for recommendations for Linux laptop

[Daniel Parraz]

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 "linux-on-laptops.com" has experience.

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. 

I would recommend using the above site for the details on the install and hardware with the particular laptop, and go from there.

Hope this helps

Daniel Parraz

keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote: Dell always has nice stuff at a low price

Inspiron E1505
Intel® Core™ Duo T2250 (1.73GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
 FREE Upgrade to Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium with 1GB of memory
 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 Dimm
 80GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive

$799+tax Shipping is usually free.

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/tv?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&keycode=6Vc94&DGVCode=TV







Lee Reynolds <lreynolds at frontier.eas.asu.edu> wrote: I have a faculty member here who is looking for a laptop to run Linux.  
Unfortunately I'm not the best person to make a recommendation on what 
to buy since I don't run Linux on any laptops.  I have set it up before 
for our customers and even got things like sound, full X support, and 
wireless working (sometimes).  What I lack is the ability to say "buy 
this" and be confident that my recommendation will have minimal problems.

Here is her description of what she wants: "I am looking for a minimal 
laptop.  The purpose of the purchase is to have a machine that I can 
take into class and demonstrate LINUX commands, utilities, etc as well 
as development of C and C++ programs.  Quite honestly, I would like to 
spend as little as possible."

It should be able to connect to our wireless network and be fairly 
capable, but other than that there are not any special considerations.

If  anyone has any recommendations I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,

Lee


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