Re: Best LAPTOP to buy for Linux?

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From: Troy Davis
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 00:00

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On Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:43:31 +1100, Chris Bitmead <ChrisB@ThePla.net>
wrote:

>I'm thinking of buying a laptop (fairly high end), on which I  want to
>run, amoungst other things, Linux.
>Which brand has the best hardware support by Linux?

X Windows is the component that has the most frequent hardware
incompatibilites.  XFree86, at http://www.xfree86.org, is the free
one.  There's another, commercial [$100], X server that might support
video cards XF86 doesn't - it's called Accelerated X and is at
http://www.xig.com.

>I guess that means the video display, sound, PCMCIA and what else to
>worry about???

Check out the Hardware Compatibility HOWTO.  You can link to it from
the HOWTO Index, which you'll want to bookmark anyhow.  It's at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX-3.html

I've moved followups to only comp.os.linux.hardware.

Cheers,

Troy Davis
Black Cat Communications
http://www.blackcat.net
Seattle, WA USA

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Subject: Re: Best LAPTOP to buy for Linux?
Date: 1998/02/20
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