[GRLUG] Best hardware for Linux

[Jonathan Jesse]

Broadcom works out of the box on Ubuntu 10.10 btw
On Oct 9, 2010 11:41 PM, "Adam Tauno Williams" <awilliam at whitemice.org>
wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 17:00 -0400, Tim Schmidt wrote:
>> These days, nearly everything likely to be found in a laptop or
>> desktop is well supported.
>
> +1
>
> Choosing a system is pretty easy these days.
>
> 1.) Nvidia or Intel GPU
> 2.) Intel wireless
>
> Those two and you should be pretty much set.
>
> Everything on my HP DV-3085DX laptop "just works". Including
> hibernation and the multimedia touch panel
> (mute/next/previous/pause/play/stop/volume). This laptop + openSUSE
> 11.3 w/GNOME and you are rolling.
>
> If someone wants a "LINUX system" and they aren't comfortable choosing
> hardware - ask someone for help.
>
>> Even Broadcom - the last holdout in wireless chipsets has offered
>> up an open source driver.
>
> I don't know if this has really born fruit yet - until it is integrated
> into distributions it doesn't do the end user much good.
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