Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

[Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:26:53AM -0700, michael@michaelshiloh.com wrote:
> As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to
> do well with Linux.
> 
> Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this?
> 
> Michael
> 

Thinkpads: my experience was good for linux. I had an X20, which is
really slim (CDROM and Floppy were both external), and Mandrake ran
beautifully on it. It eventually died when I tried to put OpenBSD on
it (I don't know if that was fixed or not, but a BIOS issue in the
thinkpads 4 years ago would kill it immediately if you format the disc
for the BSD native format). 

One of my friends, however, has a T series thinkpad, and it runs
Gentoo fine, except that no matter what she does it would refuse to
boot into a 2.6 kernel. Couldn't figure out why. 

Dell: works great. My D600 runs Gentoo since the first day I got it.
They used to have some BIOS/firmware issues with ACPI, it might be
fixed by now. 

W
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