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On Monday 14 February 2011 23:41:25 Josh Lawrence wrote:

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> After getting scorched by purchasing two laptops with almost zero

> Linux support (battery status? what battery?), I have decided to go

> looking for a laptop that is sold by a company that supports Linux.

> I'm looking for any pointers to companies that sell Laptops that run

> Linux here in the US.  (I'm already familiar with System76.)  Bonus

> points if you've done business with them and have praise or warnings

> to go along with the pointers.  Feel free to shill for your own

> company if you want, just make sure if you recommend a laptop that

> Linux can read the damn battery status.  :)

My Dell Latitude 2110 here runs fine. shipped with ubuntu9.something, upgra=

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gradually to current ubuntu-versions. I think wireless and sd-card use thei=

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own driver, could be something in mainline already supports these.

My two asus laptops where also almost fully supported, usb-webcam on the=20

second laptop is not working. But who needs a webcam constantly pointed at=

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once nose-picking anyways...
Generally speaking, unless you go to "top-of-the-art" new features (like=20

touchscreen) most of what dell, lenovo, fujitsu, asus and maybe even acer=20

ships is running on linux. Best way to check for stories of success is to=20

google your desired laptop and your favourite linux distribution...
Have fun,
Arnold
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