Re: best labtop for debian
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:47:19 -0600
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 02/16/2011 04:51 PM, Celejar wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500
> > shawn wilson<ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> >> whatever you get as long as the hardware isn't too strange. strange might be
> >> a gsm modem, fingerprint reader, dual mode graphics, no name 802.11 card -
> >> stuff like that.
> >
> > Not sure what you mean by a 'no name 802.11 card' - they all use the
> > same handful of chipsets, some of which have better linux support, and
> > some worse. Are 'no name' cards more likely to use one of the less
> > supported chipsets than brand name ones?
> >
>
> Yes. And use dodgy materials and shoddy engineering.
The latter is indicated by common sense, but I'm not convinced of the
former. Your basis?
Celejar
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