On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:49:26 -0700, Mike Hoy <mhoy4@xxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > I bought a compq r3000 presario and have it all working fine, but i > wouldn't do it again had i had the chance to. he offered to install > linux on it for me but said it would cost more thatn 350 bucks because > he has no experience writing kernels for compaq/hp. > > bottom line: > > buy a IBM t-21 or later > or a dell with nvidia card > don't buy HP/Compaq - not that they're impossible to setup, mine works, > but major headache [snip] I have an R3000Z and it works great with Linux. There are several types of R3000s: a P4 version, AMD Athlon XP version, and Athlon 64 version. Mine is an AMD64 machine and works great with FC3 x86_64. There are a few issues, sure, but with a modern laptop there is almost sure to be something that you will have to work out. I have certainly had no problems that were "major headache"s (Mike didn't say, but maybe he has the P4 version, I don't know). And many of the initial problems have been worked out in recent BIOS updates and with time as some issues are 64-bit specific (ndiswrapper only recently became usable with 64-bit, for instance). Anyway, the R3000 also has a mailing list that I've posted here many times where most issues that have come up have been solved. Many people are using these machines (especially the 64-bit ones) with Linux. Don't count it out, especially because of the 64-bit. Jonathan
