[plug] First real Linux repload on a laptop ?

[Shannon Carver]

And its not just HP that do it.  Dell will package their laptops with no 
OS at all or Lindows/Linspire for free if you require.

When I was looking round a couple of months ago for a new notebook, I 
noticed some of the custom makers in Australia do it too, Pioneer 
Computers, Saturn etc.

Shannon

Bret Busby wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Kai wrote:
>
>>
>> Desktop Linux breakthrough: Lenovo preloads SUSE on ThinkPad
>> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7778908329.html
>>
>> Anyone seen one of these in action ?
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>
> I understood that HP was selling the NX5000 with Linux preinstalled; 
> see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/04/hp_linux_laptop/ .
>
> Other articles about it, can be found searching using "nx5000" and 
> "linux", with google.
>
> As shown in the above URL that I have cited, this was done two years ago.
>
> And, Debian sarge seems to run okay on my one (although, we needed to 
> do a workaround using Ubuntu 5.04, to resolve an interrupt conflict).
>
> -- 
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
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