Re: Opinions of Sony Vaio VGN-A417S for Debian

[Luca Pireddu <lucap@shaw.ca>]

On Sunday 04 September 2005 05:25, James Brown wrote:
> 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.

I have no idea regarding the daily release.   The nice thing about failed 
installations is that you can simply install over the old one.  If you have 
trouble with the standard debian installation, then you could try the daily 
release or maybe (K)Ubuntu.  As long as the computer's components are known 
to work with some version of the kernel you should be ok.  Just in case, you 
could try to buy from a place that will let you return the laptop if you 
decide you don't like it.

Luca