[vox] Fwd: Re: Laptop recommendation

[Bill Kendrick]

Carl posted from a non-subscribed address, so fwd'ing on his behalf:

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Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 13:42:39 -0700
From: "Carl Boettiger" <cboettig at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [vox] Laptop recommendation
To: "LUGOD's general discussion mailing list" <vox at lists.lugod.org>

I've had great success with my laptop with ubuntu preisntalled from
system76, http://system76.com/.  Everything works out of the box, from
wireless to suspend and hibernate, and its nice to support a linux
only company.  They've also provided great support -- if I don't know
how to configure something I just email or call and get a quick
response with GUI-based directions for my particular machine and
distribution.  They have their own section on ubuntuforums and the
community is full of praise for them.  Certainly worth checking out.

-Carl


On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Orson Jones <orsonjones at runbox.com> wrote:
> Seth Nagao wrote:
>> Work won't let me experiment with a newer Thinkpad in my posession, but I think they generally have decent linux support.
>
> I have had success installing ubuntu to an external usb western digital
> hard drive. Depending on the bios, you can select the boot drive by
> pressing a key (F12 on my dell laptop) on boot. No modifications
> necessary at all to the laptop.
>
> Orson
>
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