Re: Debian Certified Laptops!
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:09:09PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
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> On Saturday 20 December 2003 06:00 pm, Kevin Mark wrote:
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> > 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'
Debian also worked for me on sony (The modem takes a bit of works but
all the rest was supported) although the customer support can't even
answer questions related to XP properly (in fact I haven't managed to
get a proper answer from them even to the question of where I can
complain about the fact that they aren't able to provide a single
proper answer or the fact that their repair shop doesn't seem to know
what they are doing).
> - --
> Greg Madden
> Debian GNU/Linux
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