Re: Opinions of Sony Vaio VGN-A417S for Debian

[James Brown <jbrown@orange.net>]

Luca Pireddu wrote:

> I'll dispute the claim that "Sony make the least Linux-friendly laptops."  I 
> own a Sony vaio s360 and it works great.  In fact, almost everything worked 
> right out of the box.  However, it doesn't meet your 17" screen criterion.
>
> Luca
>  
Luca,

Thanks for the reply.

I probably will go with this laptop, but there are a couple of posts 
which concerns me slightly:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2005/07/msg00426.html  [Difficulty 
with graphics card]
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/07/msg00758.html [Difficulty 
with installer]

As a newbie, I'm not so sure that using a 'daily' release would be right 
for me.

What do you think?

Regards,
James.