Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-12 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Bret Busby wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, António PT wrote: I agree with Jason. I have an HP laptop. Its wireless card is supported (ath5k) and so is the graphic board (ATI - with open source drivers). 2010/2/6 Jason Filippou On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Daniel Dalton

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-12 Thread Florian Reitmeir
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Bret Busby wrote: Maybe it would simply be a waste of time, including an application to test for hardware compatibility, in Linux Live CD's, when computer manufacturers design their computers to prevent them running anything other than MS Windows. I today went to a

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
Of course, the key is to select a laptop in the peripherals have been selected on the basis of the availability of Debian drivers. In the entire world, there are only about a half-dozen manufacturers (two of them being Clevo and Asus) of the bare-bones chassis (which consists of little more th

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-12 Thread godo
Russell L. Harris wrote: An fairly-easy way to learn which chassis and which components work with Debian is to seek out the web site of a builder who builds Debian-compatible machines, and look over the detailed list of components which he uses. So do a search on "debian laptop" and start go

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-12 Thread godo
Maybe it would simply be a waste of time, including an application to test for hardware compatibility, in Linux Live CD's, when computer manufacturers design their computers to prevent them running anything other than MS Windows. I today went to a computer retailer, and attempted to boot an

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-12 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:49:29 +0100 Florian Reitmeir wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Bret Busby wrote: ... > > However, the computer ignored the BIOS setting, and went straight to the > > HDD, to boot into MS Winows, with no other booting allowed. > > > > Thus, it appears that HP/Compaq has turne

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-12 Thread Giff Hammar
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 18:00 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Bret Busby wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, António PT wrote: > > > >> > >> I agree with Jason. I have an HP laptop. Its wireless card is supported > >> (ath5k) and so is the graphic board (ATI - with open source driv

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
godo wrote: Russell L. Harris wrote: An fairly-easy way to learn which chassis and which components work with Debian is to seek out the web site of a builder who builds Debian-compatible machines, and look over the detailed list of components which he uses. So do a search on "debian laptop"

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote: [snip] I want something with really good battery life, perhaps 5 hours or more. This is where life becomes complicated. A factor which you need to consider is useful battery lifetime (as opposed to battery capacity, which determines co