On 04/15/2015 01:01 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:

Hi,

Dell provides laptops with RHEL ws. Buy one of that kind ?

Some quick googles only turned up articles about RHEL on Dell Laptops in 2012 - nothing with RHEL seems to be current only with Ubuntu 14.04 .

Eero

2015-04-15 19:55 GMT+03:00 Steve Clark sclark@netwolves.com:

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Hello,

Has anyone used the Dell M3800 (ubuntu) laptop to run CentOS 6.x? If so how did it work out?

Also does anyone have a fairly new laptop they are running CentOS 6.x on, that they are happy about? I am in the market for a new laptop and it must run CentOS 6.x.

Thanks,

-- Stephen Clark

On Wed, April 15, 2015 12:38 pm, Eero Volotinen wrote:

Usually works fine, but try with livecd, if possible in shop? Thinkpads usually work fine with Linux too.

I for one gave up on Lenovo totally after the started doing this (I paste our network security group's message with references they gave, do your own reading and use your own brain). I know this is about what they do in Windows system they ship, and we all are mostly using Linux or BSD, but once they started doing such things in Windows, you can expect them done similar things in BIOS, etc... Just do your own reading and use your own brain ;-)

<Quote> We wanted to pass this along to you in case you hadn't seen it:

http://marcrogers.org/2015/02/19/lenovo-installs-adware-on-customer-laptops-...

/"Lenovo is installing adware that uses a “man-in-the-middle” attack to break secure connections on affected laptops in order to access sensitive data and inject advertising. As if that wasn’t bad enough they installed a weak certificate into the system in a way that means affected users cannot trust any secure connections they make – TO ANY SITE...."// /

The following describes how to remove the superfish adware: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2886278/how-to-remove-the-dangerous-superfish...

However, note that removing the adware alone isn't enough. One needs to remove the certificate manually. The following MicrosoftKB describes how to remove a trusted root certificate from the Trust Root Store:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293819. </Quote>

Valeri

-- Eero

2015-04-15 20:35 GMT+03:00 Steve Clark sclark@netwolves.com:

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On 04/15/2015 01:01 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:

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Hi, Dell provides laptops with RHEL ws. Buy one of that kind ?

Some quick googles only turned up articles about RHEL on Dell Laptops

in 2012 - nothing with RHEL seems to be current only with Ubuntu 14.04 .

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Eero

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2015-04-15 19:55 GMT+03:00 Steve Clark sclark@netwolves.com: Hello,

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Has anyone used the Dell M3800 (ubuntu) laptop to run CentOS 6.x? If so how did it work out? Also does anyone have a fairly new laptop they are running CentOS 6.x

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that they are happy about? I am in the market for a new laptop and it must run CentOS

6.x.

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Thanks,

Stephen Clark

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2015-04-16 0:07 GMT+03:00 Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org:

On 04/15/2015 12:38 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:

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Usually works fine, but try with livecd, if possible in shop? Thinkpads usually work fine with Linux too.

Thinkpads are also specifically the laptops that Red Hat issues internally for Linux laptops .. so RHEL (and therefore CentOS, since built from RHEL sources) should continue to have support for thinkpads both now and into the future.

I currently use thinkpad w530 at work, but with ubuntu. great laptop.

-- Eero

ken wrote:

Looking for my next linux laptop too, I'm loving this thread.

A tangential yet very much related question:

In the past when I've purchased a computer and put linux on it, I always had to keep Windows on it (dual-boot) in case there was a probable hardware problem and I had to walk through the tech supporter's manual with her doing Windows things to make the determination. So if I get a laptop from dell and it has linux only installed on it by them, can I still get tech support from dell for their hardware? Has anyone been down this road yet?

If you do, as I said, get an "business" laptop, not the consumer grade. And even then... if you need support, you'll have to get them to route you to "enterprise support", since the laptop/desktop support still don't know Linux. On the other hand, if you do talk to them, you could always point out that the OMSA disc boots CentOS....

mark

On 4/16/2015 2:13 PM, Steve Clark wrote:

On 04/15/2015 12:55 PM, Steve Clark wrote:

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Hello,

Has anyone used the Dell M3800 (ubuntu) laptop to run CentOS 6.x? If so how did it work out?

Also does anyone have a fairly new laptop they are running CentOS 6.x on, that they are happy about? I am in the market for a new laptop and it must run CentOS 6.x.

Thanks,

Thanks to all that replied,

I am leaning towards the Dell M4800 mobile WS, it seems pretty impressive and can be ordered with Either RHEL 6.4 $$$, or Ubuntu LTS (no $$$) so if I get it I will go that route. Only question I still have is whether to go AMD FirePro 5100 (standard) or a Nvidia option.

Any thoughts or experiences.

Thanks again.

I have the Nvidia one on my M6800, and it works without the nvidia proprietary drivers just fine.

-chuck