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From: Darren Salt on 19 Jul 2010 18:45 I demand that General Schvantzkoph may or may not have written... > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:40:45 +0000, Greg Russell wrote: >> I'm in the market for a small, wireless Linux "laptop" or "netbook" that >> uses a current, upgradeable distro. Does anyone have actual experience >> with any such devices that you'd recommend, please? > Dell has Linux laptops and netbooks with Ubuntu. If you end up buying a > Windows laptop or netbook make sure that it has Intel WiFI and non-Intel > graphics. This link below explains the disaster that's happened with > graphics in Intel chipsets recently, > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODQxOA That's "avoid GMA500 and GMA600", not "avoid all Intel graphics hardware". I see no reason to avoid GMA950, for example. -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Toon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | back! | Kill all extremists! c CODE error, 0:1
From: Rikishi42 on 19 Jul 2010 17:53 On 2010-07-19, Greg Russell <me(a)invalid.com> wrote: > I'm in the market for a small, wireless Linux "laptop" or "netbook" that > uses a current, upgradeable distro. > > Does anyone have actual experience with any such devices that you'd > recommend, please? I use Mint Linux on a Eee PC. Very nice. Might try switching it to openSUSE next, but only because I run that on most of my other machines. -- When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson
From: unruh on 19 Jul 2010 20:02 On 2010-07-19, Darren Salt <news(a)youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid> wrote: > I demand that General Schvantzkoph may or may not have written... > >> On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:40:45 +0000, Greg Russell wrote: >>> I'm in the market for a small, wireless Linux "laptop" or "netbook" that >>> uses a current, upgradeable distro. Does anyone have actual experience >>> with any such devices that you'd recommend, please? > >> Dell has Linux laptops and netbooks with Ubuntu. If you end up buying a >> Windows laptop or netbook make sure that it has Intel WiFI and non-Intel >> graphics. This link below explains the disaster that's happened with >> graphics in Intel chipsets recently, > >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODQxOA > > That's "avoid GMA500 and GMA600", not "avoid all Intel graphics hardware". I > see no reason to avoid GMA950, for example. > No idea which Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) is but it does not recognize any of VESA modes on bootup, which causes trouble because mandriva at least uses vesa modes by default ( which causes a big red switch crash) You must give a vga= (eg 0 or 1) kernel argument to stop this.
From: John Thompson on 19 Jul 2010 22:52 On 2010-07-19, Greg Russell <me(a)invalid.com> wrote: > I'm in the market for a small, wireless Linux "laptop" or "netbook" that > uses a current, upgradeable distro. > > Does anyone have actual experience with any such devices that you'd > recommend, please? I'm using xubuntu-9.10 (2GB RAM) on an Acer Aspire-One with good results. -- -John (john(a)os2.dhs.org)
From: Stan Bischof on 19 Jul 2010 23:11
Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out(a)example.net> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:40:45 +0000, Greg Russell wrote: >> I'm in the market for a small, wireless Linux "laptop" or "netbook" >> that uses a current, upgradeable distro. >> >> Does anyone have actual experience with any such devices that you'd >> recommend, please? > > http://zareason.com/shop/product.php?productid=16216 > > Have owned one since December last year. I'm happy with it. > The folks there are pleasant to deal with. > Well, if you listen to "General Schvantzkoph" none of the small zareason machines are suitable since they all have Intel graphics. Other than that they seem like pretty resonable machines. Stan |