Well the CPU is linux friendly, or linux knows how to make friends but the wireless support isn't there yet. You would have to get *another* wireless card to make it work with linux. For those who haven't read; "Centrino is a combination of the new Pentium M processor, a mobile chipset, and an 802.11b wireless chip". Intel hasn't released drivers and it may take awhile until someone reverse engineers the thing in linux. Conspiracy theories abound: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29840.html http://www.idg.net/idgns/2003/03/25/IntelReadyingLinuxDriversForCentrino.shtml I don't feel this is any different than when I got my first laptop with a winmodem built in; I had to get a real modem card until the software modem was ported. Linux was worth the hassle! <smiles> Regards, Norman --- Have Dog Will Travel <flodabay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was doing some reading about the Centrino CPU on > the Intel web site. I was > wondering how Linux friendly it is. I am looking at > getting a new laptop > with both Linux as my main OS and Windows as a > backup. > > Angus MacKinnon > Adaptive Computeer Educator, ACE > Web Page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm > Email: MAILTO:flodabay@xxxxxxxxxxx > Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc. > http://www.choroideremia.org > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list