According to Rog?rio Brito, > On Mar 19 2006, Manaen Schlabach wrote: > > You might want to consider walking into the store with a Knoppix boot > > CD/DVD and booting the laptop with Knoppix. If it works you know the > > hardware will be supported by Linux. > > And if you are concerned with hardware that works with Free Software, be > careful to see if the CD/DVD hasn't loaded any non-free software, like > ndiswrapper or such other evil things. > > Please, since you are "voting with your wallet" and you are in a > position to choose what to use, don't support those that make the life > of Free Software developers harder.
I am ashamed to admit that I voted for Dell the last time around, but they were (sadly) the only ones with the 1920x1280 screen. In my book, the only real feature that counts on a laptop is screen. Sadly, I am using nonfree video (nvidia driver) and network. But if you are satisfied with conventional displays, by all means, vote with your wallet for hardware vendors that are FOSS-friendly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
