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Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] System76 Hardware
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 18:07:15 -0400
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-----Original Message-----
From: freemanrich@gmail.com [mailto:freemanrich@gmail.com] On Behalf Of =
Rich Freeman
Sent: Friday, October 2, 2015 18:02
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System76 Hardware
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Nuno Magalh=C3=A3es =
<nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt> wrote:
> I'd say the method is the same as with any other laptop: pick one=20
> specific model, look into its hardware (this[1] and a liveCD may be=20
> handy), search for drivers, search "gento" + <specific hardware>,=20
> follow the handbook.
> You have the slight assurance those laptops are built with linux in=20
> mind; anything else is just business as usual.
Unless they or Ubuntu are carrying out-of-mainline drivers I'd say your =
assurance is more than slight, but I'm not reimbursing you if for some =
reason it doesn't work. :)
If you want to run a 2.6-series kernel on it you could have problems, =
but if you don't mind running a recent stable (ie what Gentoo ships by =
default anyway) I suspect you'll be fine. Worst case you'll just run =
closer to bleeding-edge on ~arch for the kernel for a few months until =
longterm catches up, and lots of people around here run ~arch anyway.
--
Rich
I will be running to ~arch on install anyways.