>> >> I read that HP was doing this but haven't verified. > > Ones who pre-load Linux could presumably calculate that shipping a > better supported chip may cost them slightly more initially but save > them maintenance headaches and hence eventually work out cheaper, so > that would be Dell and HP. I think some of their pre-loaded systems do > come with Intel chipsets rather than Broadcom, which are indeed slightly > more expensive to procure. I haven't directly heard the rumours Rahul > had, though. Some HP laptops pre-loaded with FreeDOS, and comes with a Broadcom chip (BCM4312 rev 01), and the website/manual said: it's certified for SuSE Enterprise Linux and RedFlag Linux (Asian distro based on RHEL) however the wifi is supported by propriety driver from Broadcom (broadcom-wl). So when HP (and others) say that a laptop (or other hardware) is certified for Linux this include hardware with propriety drivers. Another exemple is EmperorLinux they sells some Linux-certified laptops with nVidia hardware. Regards. -- Athmane Madjoudj -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
