Linux on Laptops Manufacturer Report Card 131
Werner Heuser writes "At MobiliX there is a survey of app. 100 laptop manufacturers and their Linux status available now. It contains a list of manufacturers, which are the most popular with Linux users. And some criticism about misleading manufacturer announcements for Linux support. The survey finishes with hints to laptop certifications, independent vendors and how to get rid of the "Microsoft Tax". And finally there is a A-Z list of almost 100 manufacturers and their Linux status. Besides Linux also other UniXes are mentioned and some hints about laptops with other CPUs than from Intel are included."
Anything there? (Score:5, Informative)
Compare to Linux.org's laptop page [linux.org].
Checking back, I'm not surprised to see the submitter is from the site. I couldn't imagine a reader thought it was worth telling anyone about. Give him honesty points, at least.
Booo! Hiss!! (Score:3, Informative)
All there is to see here is some guy's web analysis of what type of laptop people on his site search for.
There's a link to the now archaic windows refund site. There's a few blurbs about laptop companies that abandoned linux over the past few years. Finally there are some links to laptop manufacters and related open source projects.
Nothing really special, and nothing that isn't presented elsewhere in a cleaner, more useful format. Good "web-ring" material.
Not too much substance... (Score:4, Informative)
To be on topic, I'm using a little Presario 725US w/ 1.4 GHz. Athlon. Pretty good price/performance, and works well with linux out of the box...
Of course, to get the most out of it, I have patched the kernel for PowerNow and ACPI, to extend battery life, reduce heat, and lower fan noise. Also applied a 'kacpid' patch to kernel to recover lost acpi interrupts. Because it has no builtin support for suspend, I also have the swsup patch applied. The sound also required a patch to actually work. The savage chipset driver with XFree I replaced with a more up-to-date version with better performance, but no matter what the driver locks up when xv attributes are set, so I have to patch xine to run it and RealOne is out of the question...
Ok, so it isn't *that* great out of the box but it was a hell of a lot cheaper than the competition out there and the end result is a solid system, at a price of 1200 new (at the time, after rebate).
Re:Maybe just me (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Shamless advertisment plugging? (Score:2, Informative)
Someone managed to get their advertisement posted on the front page of slashdot, probably for free. Look at the link on the story reporter's name: It is the same as the site with the so-called survey of linux laptop machines. Essentially, the guy wanted to do some self promotion and the slashdot editors fell for it (or were paid to get into it.)
Re:dell (Score:2, Informative)
There is a workaround here [jongans.com]. (for a different laptop, but same video card). Damn it, if Dell would just fucking fix their bios to allow more "stolen" memory everything would be find. Chalk one up for corporate stupidity. Its an easy fix, and they choose not to do it. Fuck you dell.
(I am now a disgruntled dell owner that is kicking himself for not doing more research)
Re:ACPI support (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Amazing! (Score:2, Informative)
Apple (Score:4, Informative)
Nothing there... (Score:2, Informative)
This web site has almost no useful information, like most Linux on laptops pages.
About all you can do is read current user reports, and buy the laptop from place that will take it back without asking questions.
Re:dell inspiron 8000 modem (Score:2, Informative)
For Mandrake users, a better reference (Score:2, Informative)