Re: Debian Certified Laptops!
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On Saturday 20 December 2003 06:00 pm, Kevin Mark wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> many people on this list and and may gnu/linux people in general wish
> for HW vendors to show some kind of 'yes, this work with $OS_FLAVOR'
> on par with the 'we recommend XP' or 'works with XP'. If it DOES
> work, great. But only a few folks like penguin computing, lindows,
> LinuxCertified, etc. and a few HW vendors like ORINOCO
> (agere,lucent,...) actually say in on the box and even fewer will
> attempt any kind of support. How do these limited folks do it? Is it
> the possbile LEGAL issues alone, the money for testing, the myriad of
> $OS? the myraid of $VERSIONS?
> Whats you take?
>
> Happy $HOLIDAYS,
> -Kev
In the case of my Sony laptop, Sony only supports Windows XP. That means
drivers are only available for XP. Sony support does not have to answer
any questions not releated to the software that came with the laptop,
XP. I had to go to each chip makers web site and dl drivers , optomized
for some other card/laptop in order to use it for other versions of
Windows on my Sony. All not supported by Sony. BTW, Debian just
worked :)
Its probably 'all about the money'
- --
Greg Madden
Debian GNU/Linux
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