Stephen Ryan wrote:
On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 13:07, Leif Hanack wrote:
Hello,
what are your experience with debian and an hp-notebook and there hareware?!
little or much trouble getting debian to run?!
thanks in advance, leif
Which one? HP has made many different models. As a general rule, HP is
moderately Linux friendly (they've hired Bruce Perens, who used to be
the Debian Project Leader, and thery've sponsored a project to write
printer drivers for HP printers, and I noticed a couple of years ago
that my web page on Linux on the Omnibook 5500 gathered a couple of hits
per month from a .hp.com). My personal experience (years ago, with an
Omnibook 5500CT) was that installing Debian was easy - well, okay, as
easy as installing Debian on my desktop was at the time.
You're probably better off checking www.linux-laptop.net, which has more
information than you ever wanted to know about Linux on laptops, and
checking the precise model you're interested in.
I have HP Omnibook 510 and HP told me, that they have no plans for
supporting linux with this notebook. What can I say, HP linux support is
marketing bullshit?
Jarkko
