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Killing Vista - Ressurecting Linux | by zet6000 | 2008-04-28 06:48:40 |
| Ah, the fabled *ix laptop |
by perlcat45 |
2008-04-28 07:10:37 |
Good thing you waited a couple months before leaving teh Dark Side. Laptops are more proprietary, and so drivers (and power management) can be a problem.
*Before* you blow it away, go into device manager, and get the names of your network adapter, wireless adapter, etc. Search for the chipset they contain, and see if whichever distro you want to use supports it, or if there are numerous unanswered posts where people ask for device driver help and don't get it. Don't be at all shocked if you need to buy a pci express (or PC card -- whichever you have...) adapter with a supported chipset. fwcutter does not necessarily work with all adapters. A laptop without wireless is a brick IMO. (not to be confused with the old laptops I use for controlling serial devices...)
However, if you're a good c/c++ programmer, I am *sure* you will find friends, especially if you are good at writing device drivers -- you will be loved by millions. Just get the hardware that came with it to work.
I'm running KDE on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE -- on a Gateway laptop that I got for $500 from newegg. Runs great! When it had Vista on it it was unusable.
If you run into network card problems, remember what I wrote about buying a network adapter. All things being even, $30 on ebay for a nic can save you a lot of frustration. (check amazon, too, believe it or not. A nic I saw in best buy for $100 was on sale there for $30.) |
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Thankies. | by zet6000 | 2008-04-28 07:14:16 |
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