[Hardware] Inexpensive Linux laptop

[Dan]

Jonathan Berry wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been looking for an inexpensive laptop to run Linux on and was
> wondering if anyone had any recommendations.  I really like the ~14"
> widescreen form factor and definitely want something portable.  I'd
> also like something fairly inexpensive, preferably < $750.  I usually
> prefer AMD CPUs, but most of the AMD laptops out there use the ATI
> X200 chipset, which I've not heard anything good about (as far as
> Linux support).  So, I'm thinking maybe it's time to consider an Intel
> based laptop.  Those seem to have fairly good open source driver
> support (with Intel video and wireless).
>
> So, does anyone have any recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
>   
I agree, your best bet for compatibility is a centrino-based laptop in 
that it has IPW2100/2200/2915 which already is built into the kernel, 
you just need to get the driver ipw2100-firmware or ipw2200-firmware, 
which you can get from the sourceforge site, or install from livna (what 
I do). As far as graphics, my laptop has an ATI graphics card, there 
isn't any big issue except the ATI driver stopped running doom 3 again 
recently, before FC5 came out. Both have drivers easily installed from 
livna (once a compatible kernel is released).
-Dan