Re: [ilugd] Mid-range laptop for Linux (Debian)

2011-01-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: [...] Have been happy with the Sony Vaio VPCEB36FG (all those letters/digits are important), in spite of Sony's reputation of not being FOSS-friendly. Intel i3 quad-core 2.4GHz, 15.6 screen, ATI Radeon HD 5600 graphics

Re: [ilugd] Mid-range laptop for Linux (Debian)

2010-12-22 Thread Subhranath Chunder
I've got a Lenovo Y560d with Ubuntu 10.10, and everything works pretty much out of the box. Didn't have to struggle with anything particular. Thanks, Subhranath. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Abhinav Sahai abhinav...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Gora Mohanty

Re: [ilugd] Mid-range laptop for Linux (Debian)

2010-12-22 Thread Narendra Sisodiya
2010/12/22 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org Coming back to the matter in hand, I was planning to buy a mid-range laptop (actually someone else planning to buy me one, for reasons too complex to go into), and was wondering if you could share your experiences with laptops that are

Re: [ilugd] Mid-range laptop for Linux (Debian)

2010-12-22 Thread Kartik Singhal
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: http://lug-iitd.org/List_of_laptop_with_preinstalled_GNU-Linux_in_India http://lug-iitd.org/Articles/My_laptop_is_working_fine_with_linux These two links are not working. -- Kartik Singhal BTech CSE

Re: [ilugd] Mid-range laptop for Linux (Debian)

2010-12-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
2010/12/22 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org: [...] Coming back to the matter in hand, I was planning to buy a mid-range laptop (actually someone else planning to buy me one, for reasons too complex to go into), and was wondering if you could share your experiences with laptops that

Re: [ilugd] Mid-range laptop for Linux (Debian)

2010-12-21 Thread Ravi Kumar
Gora, Is this recommendations to buy Sony VIAO or are you saying not to buy because it has lots of issues with GNU Linux?? Anyway, I bought Dell Inspiron 1545 with freedos, around a year ago, and it never had any problem in using Linux and/or installing any device driver. So I would recommend

Re: [ilugd] Mid-range laptop for Linux (Debian)

2010-12-21 Thread Amit Karpe
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Ravi Kumar ra2...@gmail.com wrote: Gora, Is this recommendations to buy Sony VIAO or are you saying not to buy because it has lots of issues with GNU Linux?? Anyway, I bought Dell Inspiron 1545 with freedos, around a year ago, and it never had any problem in

Re: [ilugd] Mid-range laptop for Linux (Debian)

2010-12-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Ravi Kumar ra2...@gmail.com wrote: Gora, Is this recommendations to buy Sony VIAO or are you saying not to buy because it has lots of issues with GNU Linux?? Well, to me, these were minor annoyances that I was willing to put up with, especially as I imagine that

Re: [ilugd] Mid-range laptop for Linux (Debian)

2010-12-21 Thread Abhinav Sahai
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Ravi Kumar ra2...@gmail.com wrote: Gora, Is this recommendations to buy Sony VIAO or are you saying not to buy because it has lots of issues with GNU Linux?? Well, to me, these were