notebook sold with fedora or redhat

[John Summerfied]

Christian Kalkhoff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> if you are in faculty i saw notebooks sold with installed mandriva linux in 
> france. Check for them. FC should run fine on them.
> 
> If you buy HP Notebooks most models have official linux support and are 
> certified for RLES and SLES. The ship with installation documentation that 
> also applies to FC. I bought a HP Compaq nx8220 recently and it works great 
> except the suspend to mem and disk.
> 
> Regards,
> Christian
> 
> Am Montag 05 Dezember 2005 15:31 schrieb Rakotomandimby Mihamina:
> 
>>Hi,
>>I'm looking for some notebooks sold with fedora or redhat.
>>They should have working:
>>- Ethernet
>>- USB 2
>>- Wi-Fi
>>- CD burner
>>- Much RAM (~1024Mo should be OK)
>>
>>And may be:
>>- Nvidia graphic chipset
>>
>>Where could I find that? I'm in France.

Some models of HP notebooks ship in some markets with Ubuntu 
preinstalled, and I think some with SUSE.

Some Acer Aspires ship in Thailand with Linux (a .th distro I suspect) 
preinstalled. See www.acer.co.th I think they're using ndiswrapper tho.

I bought an Acer Aspire 3503WLMI which does not ship in Oz with Linux.
It features
Ethernet
USB 2 (but I think not as much as it claims)
WiFi
DVD burner
80 Gb
512 Mb (2x256) DDR Ram, some stolen by graphics
C M370 (1.5 Gigglehurts)
SiS chipset (well supported)

The WiFi requires the Madwifi drivers that FC does not include. I tried 
the FC5 beta, decided I really don't want the hassle of downloading 
drives, building kernels anf whatnot, and installed SuSE which does 
suport the wifi and tries the modem too.

Note some of the Acer Aspires (I think the ones with Sempron processors, 
damn, have Broadcom wireless).


An option for wireless might be to buy one without wireless ("ready for 
wireless) if you can still get one. I know a vendor here in Perth who 
can advise on Linux compatibility; perhaps there's one near you.

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