On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > anyone have good/bad/indifferent experience with one of these > > running fedora? > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220412 > > No experience, but this thing has an NVidia graphics card. Those are > the source of worlds of pain. I strongly recommend going with Intel > integrated graphics instead (but NOT the GMA 500 "Poulsbo" - that > one is not supported yet). philosophically, i don't like closed-source drivers any more than the next geek, but sometimes you simply can't avoid getting an nvidia card in some models of laptop. in cases like that, as long as i can install the downloadable driver and it works properly, i'm willing to hold my nose. and, i have to admit, for the most part, nvidia drivers seem to work well. i had one in an older dell inspiron and never had any problems. it's not ideal but, barring any real issues, it's acceptable. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ======================================================================== -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
