Linux notebooks by Hewlett-Packard

[Marc M]

> 
> >>Nah, that's just old distros for you.
> 
> >When I first put RH7.3 onto my first laptop, I needed to recompile the
> kernel for my NIC and soundcard - it's just one of those PITA things.
> Needless to say that when RH9 came along, everything was picked up. It
> now sits with FC2 on (it's at the sister in laws) and has everything
> working.


That's understandable - the hardware aged enough until the distro supported 
it more fully and easier. I make sure the software is much newer than the 
hardware - then I am ok. And it depends greatly on what you are trying to 
run. I keep seeing more and more fancy ads for laptops especially, and every 
time I think "what are the odds that I could actually get EVERY part of the 
system to work"? I have seen more posts to the effect of 'I can get 
everything but (fill in the blank) to work'. I know what you mean - the 
modern distros are MILES ahead of where they used to be! But then again 
there are always new features, chipsets, wireless features, etc. added. I 
would hope that they all have support right out of the box. But I don't have 
enough faith in HP to throw unbridled (and largely unearned) brand loyalty 
their way. That may change one day for me if enough company propaganda, I 
mean marketing, comes my way. Debian might be a differrent story - I hear 
that there is a greater range of hardware supported right out of the box. I 
have yet to test that theory at this point. 

Marc
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