Suggestions for laptop purchase for Fedora Core 3?

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

Erik Hemdal wrote:

> I've had good luck with Dell Inspiron and Latitude laptops running FC.

I have a Dell Inspiron 6000d (the d stands for dedicated graphics, ATI
Radeon Mobility x300).  Everything works great out of the box except the
CDROM (I got the cd burner, not the dvd burner).  I had to patch and
recompile my kernel to get DMA to work.  The patch is simple, just a few
#define's and #undef's.  After that, everything runs great.

Jim Carter has a great site about the Inspiron 6000d and Linux (it includes
the DMA patch):
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/insp6000/index.html

> An aside, my local PC vendor charges (last I checked) about $250 - $300 to
> install Linux on their hardware.

Oh my god, that is an outrage.  How do I get in on that shite?  =)

> Erik

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