Re: Local Linux builders?

Dominic Canare <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.aclug.discussion
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I've used Fedora on Ubuntu on my Satellite tablet. Wireless works
out-of-the-box, even when I bought it in 2006. I'm still using it today as
well as a Sony Vaio with Ubuntu, and have had no problems so far.


Dominic Canare
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 15:42, Robert <[email protected]> wrote:

>  For what it's worth:
> I have found the Toshiba Satellites quite compatible with Linux Distro's
> except Ubuntu (wireless issues), from inexpensive to top of the line Toshiba
> units worked very well with both Fedora based and SUSE based OSs.
>
> Robert
>
>
> On 06/24/2011 04:33 PM, Steven Saner wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 24, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Dale Beams wrote:
>>
>>  I'm going to echo this as well.  While building a system is interesting
>>> I've found that system builders who do mass production usually get it
>>> right and can do it more efficiently at a cheaper price.  Then there is
>>> always the issue of support which often you won't get from a one/two man
>>> shop.
>>>
>>> It appears they sell desktop PC configurations without an OS.  If you
>>> would like to make an easy transition, try YLMF Linux.  Looks like
>>> windows, operates like linux. Ubuntu based and great transitional linux
>>> system.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Anybody know if they sell a good laptop for Linux? Anybody have any
>> suggestions for a Linux laptop (doesn't need to be preloaded as I would
>> probably want to put my favorite distribution on anyway).
>>
>> Steve
>>
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