On 22 October 2014 23:07, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote: > Is anyone running SL 7 on a Dell Latitude E6540? My institution is > considering this unit over the equivalent HP unit, to replace the five year > old laptop that I currently use, because of the net lower cost of the > Dell. Dell claims that it will run Linux Ubuntu 12.04 -- but I do not know > if this enthusiast Ubuntu has more "secure boot", etc., capabilities than > SL7x. > > There are a couple of Dell linux mailing lists which might help.. but the main issues you will need to look for are:
What video card the box has What wireless networkcard the box has The out of the box video should work well for most things on nvidia but may 'require' the nvidia drivers for certain items. The intel video should work out of the box without any problems. The wireless network may need a driver for the broadcom but most likely again works for 99% of the things without it. Outside of that there is also elrepo with drivers and later kernels if needed. I have no idea about the status of Secure boot for Scientific Linux. If it is required for your projects then you may need to help SL team on it. Most enterprise laptops come with the ability to turn off secure boot because it breaks certain uses of Windows 7 and such. > Any information, on or off list, greatly would be appreciated. > > Yasha Karant > -- Stephen J Smoogen.
