Local Linux laptop supplier: success!

[Teddy Mills]

Choosing a laptop vendor, just because they support linux; is that reason
enough?
I would be much more interested in the laptop itself, the hardware, price
and components, and overall support.
The linux support you can do yourself, and will probably do a much better
job than the company would.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Local Linux laptop supplier: success!


> On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:19:38PM -0500, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> > We finally had success with a local Linux laptop supplier.  (Phewf!)
> >
> > Angel Computers http://www.angelcomputer.com/ offers various laptops
> > with Linux pre-installed (i.e.: no MS tax).  We got the 3000C.  It turns
> > out they had problems actually installing Linux, but once they told us
> > that that machine's really a relabelled Clevo M350C, all was good, and
> > we got Debian on the thing.  They're localted in Mississauga.  We went
> > down there in person to deal with them.
> >
> > Debian installation notes: http://www.cypherpunks.ca/m350c/
>
> I think it would be even nicer if the pcmcia stuff and the kernel had
> been done properly as debian packages.  make-kpkg (from kernel-package)
> makes building and packaging a kernel very easy under debian (and has
> some other advantages for any additional modules you may want built for
> the kernel).  I suspect backports already exist of the pcmcia stuff, or
> at least one should be easy to make.
>
> Great to know that at least someone offers non windows poluted laptops.
>
> Lennart Sorensen
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