On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 00:25, Scott <scottro@nyc.
> A lot does depend upon the distribution. At present, some that are using
> 2.6.30-32 or so kernels may have trouble with Atheros cards, though by
> now, most of that is fixed. Fedora has trouble with some ATI cards,
> especially if you go for graphic effects.
>
Well, I did mention Atheros :P I'd not heard about the ATI issues
with Fedora though, but honestly, I haven't touched Fedora since F10,
really... I've been on either RHEL or SLES at work, and Ubuntu
elsewhere for the last couple years... (outside of the class I teach
which I used F10 for last spring)...
> The Realtek wireless cards can also sometimes be a problem.
> However, the odds are that Linux will, as both Loyal and Jeff have said,
> be fine with whatever you buy.
Yep... Loyal and I are wise beyond our years ;-)
> If you used CentOS, which is based on RedHat's enterprise version, you
> might run into trouble--it'
> to upgrade kernels and drivers, therefore, some of the newer hardware
> might be a problem.
>
> Ubuntu, Mint, Siddux, Mepis, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva--most of these should
> run on almost any hardware you throw at them.
The nice thing I've found with Ubuntu (and the Ubuntu based distros)
is that they make it a lot easier to install proprietary drives when
you need to. For example, the Broadcom wireless cards... Ubuntu 9.10
and 10.04 actually asked me during install (via the hardware-drivers
tool in the live environment) if I wanted to run the proprietary
Broadcom drivers instead of the open source ones, and so two clicks
and I was up and running on a Broadcom wireless card that had been,
until that point, a real PITA to get running.
Not sure if it's still kept up to date, but, you can check out
http://linux-
interested in. You can usually find install instructions, things to
watch out for, and tips for working around problems on various laptop
models.
Cheers,
Jeff
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