leasing linux laptops

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 24 15:16:28 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:13:02AM -0400, Neil Watson wrote:
> I need a more long term business lease.
> 
> Interestingly the Lenovo sight has a big page announcing that Thinkpads
> are now available that are preloaded with Suse.  I checked several models
> this morning but Windows was the only option.

Well someone at work just got a Thinkpad T61, which so far works
amazingly well with Debian (well with Debian Unstable).  I think the
screen is 1440x900 or something along those lines.  14.1" widescreen.

intel 4965 wireless simply needs the firmware-iwlwifi package installed,
along with 2.6.24 kernel package and it works perfectly.

nvidia graphics works with the nvidia graphics packages in debian as
well.

Bluetooth, firewire, usb, etc all work fine.  We haven't looked at the
fingerprinter scanner although supposedly that too works with linux.

So they might be more expensive, but they are quite reliable, and you
probably can lease one.

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