linux netbook

[स्वक्ष]

Hello,

I've been searching for pre-installed linux netbooks and apparently
Dell's Inspiron-mini comes with 'certified'/pre-installed(?) Ubuntu
Netbook Remix (but this information is not available on the website,
http://www1.ap.dell.com/in/en/home/notebooks/laptop-mini/ct.aspx?refid=laptop-mini&s=dhs&cs=indhs1)
on their ATOM N450 range of netbooks. According to the site a Windows
pre-installed retails at around 16k in Bangalore but I'm not sure if
the price-point rises when (if) the customer insists on 'Linux'
pre-installed on her netbook. Has anyone purchased it recently? Also
does anyone know if Asus, Acer, HP, etc..., sell netbooks with Linux
(debian or ubuntu flavors...er...any linux flavor on second thoughts)
pre-installed in Bangalore and can you share your experiences please?

Thanks,

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[Kingsly John]

+++ स्वक्ष [2010-09-12 16:17:32]:

I'm in the market for one too. So far the best one I've located is a Samsung
one which comes with FreeDOS for around 15k. (Have yet to check out the Acer
ones.)

Don't care much for Linux pre-installed since I'd be knocking out whatever
distro they ship with anyways.

Kingsly

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[Suryajith Chillara]

There was a model at 14,900 and yes, it was featured on their site in
the summers and a friend of mine did get it. Later when my dad was
looking for the same, it was no longer on sale.

AFAIK that was the only netbook in the recent times which came
pre-installed with linux.

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

MSI wind comes with suse - both my daughters have them, and everything
works out of the box - wifi, hifi, lowfi etc
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[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 23:32 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> > does anyone know if Asus, Acer, HP, etc..., sell netbooks with Linux
> > (debian or ubuntu flavors...er...any linux flavor on second
> thoughts)
> > pre-installed in Bangalore and can you share your experiences
> please?
>
> MSI wind comes with suse - both my daughters have them, and everything
> works out of the box - wifi, hifi, lowfi etc

btw, for the second WIND that I bought, by mistake the office bought it
with windows. We found the wireless chipset was not a very good one and
would only work with suse (we also tried fedora and mandriva but it
didn't work). The linux machine had a superior chipset. Although the
suse machine did not come with a cd, it has suse on a secret partition
on the disk. There was some error and my daughter's files and her home
etc got deleted, (human error), but on clicking rescue, the machine
reinstalled suse. Acer also has (linpus) linux versions, and so do
others. But these are hidden carefully on the websites - but can be
found by diligent search.

[shiv_jags]

I have been using an ASUS Eeepc for the last 2.5 years with Ubuntu
(various flavors). I am now on a Eeepc 1005H running Ubuntu Lucid
Netbook Edition with no issues at all.

[Nigel Babu]

Hi

Not sure if it helps, but Ubuntu has a site where hardware is
certified to work with Ubuntu[1]. Perhaps that could be a good place
to kick off the search (if you're looking to run Ubuntu on it)

http://webapps.ubuntu.com/certification/

Warm Regards
Nigel Babu

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[स्वक्ष]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:37, Nigel Babu <nige...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Not sure if it helps, but Ubuntu has a site where hardware is
> certified to work with Ubuntu[1].  Perhaps that could be a good place
> to kick off the search (if you're looking to run Ubuntu on it)
>
> http://webapps.ubuntu.com/certification/

It does help and my past experience with bad hardware on laptops* is
mainly why I dont want to buy hardware that does not support Linux.
I've checked out a few that do support Linux and I'll keep the list
posted soon.

* The moment the service center folks see you running Linux they have
a penchant for blaming it for all the hardware issues -- Never mind
that the chipset on the motherboard is faulty and the laptop screen
has dead pixels ... the problem is all because you run linux. In a
desktop I have no problem isolating such issues but with a laptop one
is at the mercy of the company in the event of a hardware issue and I
want to avoid frivolous arguments by paying for hardware that supports
linux.