Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.
Ern jura wrote:
Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.
Regarding hardware specifics, HP is a company that provides Linux drivers for all its equipment, so I would begin checking their products first.
Ern jura a écrit :
Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.
Here I have an ASUS, an HP Pavilion and an older Fujitsu Amilo D, all running CentOS 5.0 fine.
Take a peek at http://www.linux-laptop.net to see if/how your hardware is supported.
Unfortunately, at least here in France there's no ****ing way to have a laptop without Microsoft Windows installed. I'm 100% GNU/Linux since 2001 or so, but I must have paid for five or six licenses since.
Cheers,
Niki
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 12:58 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Ern jura a écrit :
Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.
Here I have an ASUS, an HP Pavilion and an older Fujitsu Amilo D, all running CentOS 5.0 fine.
Take a peek at http://www.linux-laptop.net to see if/how your hardware is supported.
Unfortunately, at least here in France there's no ****ing way to have a laptop without Microsoft Windows installed. I'm 100% GNU/Linux since 2001 or so, but I must have paid for five or six licenses since.
I thought that I read that someplace over in Europe that MS was forced to give credit for un-used windows licenses. Part of the Europeand Anti-trust action IIRC.
Regards, Paul Berger
On Sat November 10 2007 09:34, Paul wrote:
Unfortunately, at least here in France there's no ****ing way to have a laptop without Microsoft Windows installed. I'm 100% GNU/Linux since 2001 or so, but I must have paid for five or six licenses since.
I thought that I read that someplace over in Europe that MS was forced to give credit for un-used windows licenses. Part of the Europeand Anti-trust action IIRC.
I was just thinking the same thing. I also thought Windows has a sort of buy back program in their licenses? Were if you didn't use it you could return it for a refund.
Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.
I would love to find a Linux laptop that had good wi-fi support. Including WPA and using an integrated wi-fi adaptor. Having to edit a file to connect to a secure access point is not user friendly if you ask me.
Matt
On Nov 10, 2007 12:15 PM, Matt lm7812@gmail.com wrote:
Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.
I would love to find a Linux laptop that had good wi-fi support. Including WPA and using an integrated wi-fi adaptor. Having to edit a file to connect to a secure access point is not user friendly if you ask me.
I've found that IBM Thinkpad's have pretty good compatibility with RH based distro's
I would love to find a Linux laptop that had good wi-fi support. Including WPA and using an integrated wi-fi adaptor. Having to edit a File to connect to a secure access point is not user friendly if you ask me.
I haven't tried with CentOS, but my new Compaq/HP NC6400 Intel chipset based wireless worked great with my WPA access point via the GUI on the Scientific Linux live CD.
On Nov 10, 2007 1:48 PM, Ern jura exjura@gmail.com wrote:
Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.
Toshiba P105-S6207
Wireless ------- Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
Works out-of-box including for WPA/EAP networks.
Ethernet -------- Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Works out-of-the-box. Performance seems REALLY good.
Video ----- Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
Works out-of-the-box.
Flash Card Reader ---------------- Card reader in front of laptop is a "Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)". This doesn't work of of the box on openSUSE 10.2 as they don't include the modules in the default kernel; this supposedly will change with openSUSE 10.3. But sussing out the required incantation and getting it up and running took only a few minutes.
Go to http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tifmxx Get tifm-0.6b.tar.bz2 tar xjvf tifm-0.6b.tar.bz2 make make install
To start it immediately - modprobe tifm_core modprobe tifm_7xx1 modprobe mmc_core modprobe mmc_block modprobe fm_sd
Count Of Dracula a écrit :
Wireless
Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
Works out-of-box including for WPA/EAP networks.
I have an ASUS laptop with this wireless card. I installed the dkms package for the ipw3945 module, and it somehow works, although with one minor dysfunction. On bootup, I get an error message about "interface eth1 not present so its activation will be delayed". That's because the dkms module installer only attempts to start *after* network device activation.
I wonder how I could possibly solve this annoying situation. Merely change the order of activation? If so, how do I do this? (I only know how to switch services on / off in different runlevels using chkconfig... but how do I change the *order* in which they are launched?)
cheers,
Niki Kovacs
Quoting Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net:
Count Of Dracula a écrit :
Wireless
Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
Works out-of-box including for WPA/EAP networks.
I have an ASUS laptop with this wireless card. I installed the dkms package for the ipw3945 module, and it somehow works, although with one minor dysfunction. On bootup, I get an error message about "interface eth1 not present so its activation will be delayed". That's because the dkms module installer only attempts to start *after* network device activation.
I wonder how I could possibly solve this annoying situation. Merely change the order of activation? If so, how do I do this? (I only know how to switch services on / off in different runlevels using chkconfig... but how do I change the *order* in which they are launched?)
You would be better off disabling all network adapters from coming up at boot time and using NetworkManager for establishing network connectivity.
On Nov 11, 2007 9:19 PM, Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:
I wonder how I could possibly solve this annoying situation. Merely change the order of activation? If so, how do I do this? (I only know how to switch services on / off in different runlevels using chkconfig... but how do I change the *order* in which they are launched?)
This is just to answer your question about how to change the order of init scripts (not necessarily the solution for the current issue).
If you ls -l /etc/rcX.d (for example /etc/rc3.d for runlevel 3), you will find symlinks that start with either Kxx or Sxx. The K is for kill (stop) and the S is for start. The number that follows determines the order in which they are executed. So you can manually change the order by replacing that number.
Akemi
Ern jura wrote:
Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.
From the linux journal review of this month:
Lenovo ThinkPad T61 - linux version
www.lenovo.com
R cubed
www.shoprcubed.com
HPC systems
www.hpcsystems.com
Dell Inspiron 1420N
www.dell.com/linux
Also check:
www.compamerica.com www.polywell.com www.thinkmate.com
Ugo
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