Bruce Perens claims that HP will now ship laptops with Debian installed (previously they just did RedHat, I guess) although I think they all have winmodems, which, from my experience is a definite hassle. It might be worth calling them to find out more.
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I have a very brief question. I'm not that familiar at all with Debian, I used it a while back, although not a lot, and I certainly qualify as a GNU/Linux neophyte. Enough with the introduction.