On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Sanjay Arora <sanjay.k.arora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings from India to all > > First of all, I would like to thank the community for the effort it > puts in and users like us get the benefit. I started using linux about > 5 years ago and today I personally use Fedora and all other six users > in my SME company use Centos. And, I am proud to say that today we > only a single Windows installation in our small office (for ISP > troubleshooting, even though most of the use is Desktop. > > However, I am in a fix now. I need to buy a high end laptop, (4 GB > RAM, 200 GB HDD, 17" Screen, Touchpad, Integrated Webcam and Full > Multimedia, so that the system can double as a Personal Entertainment > Device High End Audio/Video on long trips). I will need to run Centos > & Windows virtualized with Xen or some other hypervisor, for my some > of my office applications > > I have browsed lots of sites & mailing lists, even some linux > certified sellers, but all seem to show either outdated hardware or > low multimedia. > > I would like to know of such a Laptop which has linux drivers for all > its hardware, even if scattered on the net and someone is using such a > system successfully for similar applications. I could perhaps > outsource the driver compilation & installation to someone remotely, > as I do not know much about compiling & troubleshooting Hardware > problems. > > My Windows usage is rare & for only a couple of programs for Equity & > Commodity Trade Charting and works in hypervisor, though I have not > tested it yet. > > I do not now want to revert to Windows for other applications like > Multimedia, because I have been quite happy with Fedora Multimedia on > my Desktop. Only issue is choosing the right hardware for which > drivers are available & outsourcing to someone to build driver rpms > for me & others for that particular laptop. After that, at least one > high end model will be available for other people like myself. > > Hope the Fedora Gurus will give some guidance about selecting such a > laptop for which full hardware support can be built in the > community....I will gladly pay someone reasonable amount to do it for > me and build it into the Fedora code. > I'd say get a Dell, everything worked on the F8 install I did but they have that stupid dell media direct button which will hose your install in seconds..... Max -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
