Comments on: Another PC vendor selling Linux

By: zyga

zyga — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:18:26 +0000

neither Dell Inspiron 640m nor Acer TM 611 and 803 have no problems with Ubuntu at all – hibernation, suspend wlan, all works fine

By: nixternal

nixternal — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:50:40 +0000

I have no problems whatsoever. The only thing I have to do is run wifi with ndiswrapper, and I haven’t experienced the difficulties with it that others have either.

By: Al

Al — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:27:25 +0000

I’ve recently got a Compaq v6000, which I run Kubuntu on, but it suffers from the bug that requires “noapic irqpoll” in the boot line, which kills off a lot of usefull functions, like suspend etc. This bug has been around for a long time as far as I’m aware, and I’m surprised it hasn’t been fixed yet.. Does your laptop not suffer from this?

By: nixternal

nixternal — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:58:24 +0000

That is true, however the Linux systems they sold were for companies only, and never came close to the specifications that they are currently pushing. They definitely haven’t sold a solution as low as this either. Same goes for Dell and IBM, they always had some sort of Linux system available, but only for commercial customers.

By: erik

erik — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:49:05 +0000

HP has been selling many models with Linux for a few years already. They just have not been listed publicly, you have had to know about them and call their sales reps and ask for them.