On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 01:34 +0530, Sanjay Arora wrote: > > 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 > > If it's CentOS you're interested in, you're on the wrong list. As I said in my OP, I use Fedora, presently 8 (However I do tend to upgrade to new versions as soon as they are available. However, my Company runs Centos 5 & Windows and I wish to run them under virtualization. >But I > bought a fairly new Asus laptop at the end of last year, and just about > everything works on it (haven't tried firewire, the multi-card reader > only manages to read SD-RAM cards, the webcam isn't usable). Using > Ubuntu on the same laptop, the webcam does work. > That's the problem with the literature out there. Just like your post, users have tried & reported various hardware and posted their results. Sometimes they have outlined workarounds & sometimes an alternate linux versions where their hardware works. No one points out a version where software works on the hardware out of the box. I think, each community should at least adopt at least 3 Models (low-end, medium-end & high-end) of any one manufacturer and support them. If average users get a model supported out of the box, buyers like us would definitely end up buying more laptops fully supported by their distros. This may even create a Virtuous Circle where seeing incremental sales through support of a linux distro the manufacturers may even become more open to co-operate with the community. With best regards. Sanjay. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
