On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 12:13:17 -0700, David L <idht4n@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I would know before shelling out $500 that it's likely to > be well supported. I'd even kick in $20 to the fedora That's going to be tough. Do they guaranty which components get used in a model. (I thought the low end models got whatever is cheap this week, but could be wrong.) The do support RHEL on some of their machines, but given the included hardware, I suspect that is with some proprietary drivers, so the Fedora experience may not be nice even if RHEL works. > to the exact system they buy. I have struggled with a > crappy intel driver on my IBM thinkcentre for the last 6 > fedora releases and I'd really like to not repeat that > experience when buying new hardware. Since the list > of pre-installed Linux systems from major desktop > manufacturers is pretty short, it seems like it should be > easy to get such a system on a desk at redhat. The last machine I didn't scrounge, I built myself based largely in part on recommendations from DJB. It was a fun experience for some definitions of fun. For a desktop, doing this is practical for people willing to commit some time and risk breaking something. (I managed to snag a condensor and had to solder a replacement from radio shack, onto the motherboard.) Laptops seem to be a much harder case for doing this kind of thing. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
