[TriLUG] Seeking Free-Software-friendly laptop suggestions

[Magnus Hedemark]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Matt Matthews wrote:

> So, does anyone have suggestions?

HP/Compaq Evo's have not worked well for me with Linux.  Now while there 
may be third party modules and such you can download and install, if it's 
not in the mainstream distros I consider it not friendly.  Keep that in 
mind.

But that said, much of the hardware in the HP/Compaq Evo n8000c was more 
pain than necessary to get working.

I've had much different results with several recent IBM thinkpads, all 
different models.  For years IBM has been pretty good about Linux 
compatibility with a few exceptions.

If you want to go cheap and different, you can always get an Apple iBook 
and slap Yellowdog on there.