From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EUqQN-0005js-Ry for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:55:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9QIs1dx022942; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:54:01 GMT Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice02.Princeton.EDU [128.112.130.38]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9QIntcN002878 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:49:55 GMT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j9QInsJx028692 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:49:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j9QInrpM017883 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:49:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D9D831F171; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:49:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:49:44 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] laptop Message-ID: <20051026184944.GA17680@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <200510260854.37937.john@jolet.net> <7e7f5e710510260829s6fb6bf0dye35cab8d972fb1c0@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 2afeb6ab-048f-4274-8f63-62dfd240517c X-Archives-Hash: 8fa1435caa1d2e9d5dc23bb946dd0021 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 -- "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. " Sortir en Pantoufles: up 4 days, 10:54 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list