labtops with preinstalled RedHat
Hi, I am ready to purchase a new laptop. Which manufacturers offer a preinstalled RH? [I have received negative replies from Compaq and Dell - HP just didn't respond]. Thanks, Bob -- Bob Hartung, Bettendorf, IA ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Bob Hartung wrote: Hi, I am ready to purchase a new laptop. Which manufacturers offer a preinstalled RH? [I have received negative replies from Compaq and Dell - HP just didn't respond]. pretty much no one, since it's not worth the investment in technical support. you're better off just figuring out which laptops *run* RH with minimal fuss, and install it yourself. check out www.linux-laptop.net as a start. rday p.s. my dell inspirons have performed very nicely with red hat, and ibm thinkpads are also regarded pretty highly for linux support. p.p.s. dell *used to* offer red hat pre-installed on some of their laptops, but discontinued that. no big surprise there -- most linux users don't care about pre-installed OSes, since they plan on doing their own installation anyway. so the pre-installed feature had zero value to the majority of the linux community. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 11:16:58 -0600 Bob Hartung [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: Hi, I am ready to purchase a new laptop. Which manufacturers offer a preinstalled RH? [I have received negative replies from Compaq and Dell - HP just didn't respond]. == If you really want RH 7.2 pre-installed [it is easy enough to do yourself] try www.aslab.com I bought a laptop and tower from them and they have been great. Mike -- Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant. --John Adams ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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Bob Hartung, On Sunday 10 February 2002 12:16, you said something about: Hi, I am ready to purchase a new laptop. Which manufacturers offer a preinstalled RH? [I have received negative replies from Compaq and Dell - HP just didn't respond]. You might want to check out IBM. They were offering them a few months ago preloaded with Linux, but everything changes quickly and may not by now. But none the less, Thinkpads are pretty nice and I believe they will tell you which models are already certified for RH regardless. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Brian Ashe wrote: Bob Hartung, On Sunday 10 February 2002 12:16, you said something about: Hi, I am ready to purchase a new laptop. Which manufacturers offer a preinstalled RH? [I have received negative replies from Compaq and Dell - HP just didn't respond]. You might want to check out IBM. They were offering them a few months ago preloaded with Linux, but everything changes quickly and may not by now. But none the less, Thinkpads are pretty nice and I believe they will tell you which models are already certified for RH regardless. one more thing worth mentioning -- given that the economy is pretty much in the tank at the moment, you should be able to get a *really* good deal on a laptop, as a lot of manufacturers are throwing in lots of freebies to move their product. when i bought my new inspiron 8100, i got an extra 256M of RAM free, free shipping and i'm sure something else at no extra charge, but i can't remember what. regardless of the freebies, though, while i think thinkpads are terrific laptops, they cost considerably more than a comparably equipped laptop from most other vendors. rday ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 11:16:58 -0600 Bob Hartung [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: Hi, I am ready to purchase a new laptop. Which manufacturers offer a preinstalled RH? [I have received negative replies from Compaq and Dell - HP just didn't respond]. == If you really want RH 7.2 pre-installed [it is easy enough to do yourself] try www.aslab.com I bought a laptop and tower from them and they have been great. Mike I can also speak speak positively about ASL. I got a laptop from them about in Dec. 2000 and it's worked fine. If I were going to do it now, I might not be as interested in having Linux preinstalled, but I didn't have the time to mess with trying to get Linux installed when I bought it and this way I figured I'd get hardware that was known to work fine (including sound card, etc.) with Linux. They installed Red Hat 6.2 for me, but I had no problems installing Red Hat 7.1 and 7.2 on it. Dave ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Bob Hartung wrote: Hi, I am ready to purchase a new laptop. Which manufacturers offer a preinstalled RH? [I have received negative replies from Compaq and Dell - HP just didn't respond]. Hmm. In it's Higher Education section, Dell offers a Latitude C600 with Red Hat Linux 7.0 installed. That's a pretty nice machine--we've been using them in the laptop program for students here this year. Big dealers are not likely to be selling the latest bleeding-edge stuff due to QA concerns. Somebody else pointed out ASLabs. Is Tuxtops still in business? I know I've seen ads for resellers who install Linux on various machines like Sony VAIOs. Check Linux Journal and Linux Magazine. And it's not that hard to put RHL on a laptop if you can get hold of partitioning software. Google turns up a bunch of sites, including www.linux-laptop.net. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
