[GRLUG] Best hardware for Linux

[Bob Kline]

Good to hear.  I have one unit that
needed a bcm43 driver - I only got it
to work with one version of Kubuntu.
Feisty-something.

    -- Bob


On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> > Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA
> > <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com>
> > OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba
> >
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