Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:24:56 -0500, doug wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 04:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> I'm looking for a laptop with Linux preinstalled by vendor. I'm aware
>> of System76 who ships with Ubuntu. Is there anyone else? I would like
>> to do some comparison shopping.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
> I think I've heard that Asus will ship with Linux, and perhaps also
> eMachines, altho from what I read,
> eMachines does not have a good record. All vendors I've read about ship
> with Ubuntu, so if you don't want that, you'll have to install something
> else yourself, and/or set up a dual boot with 2 Linux distros.
> That works fine--I have 3 distros plus XP on this Dell laptop. From any
> of the Linuxes, you can access the files the others and XP.
> Unfortunately, I can't access the Linux files from XP. If I had set up
> the Linuxes on exp2 or exp3 I think I could have found a program that
> lets XP communicate with them, but I didn't.
>
> Hint: if you run more than one Linux distro, within each Documents
> directory, put a filename that says pclos, or ubuntu, or whatever, so
> when you select a partition,
> you can figure out what system you're accessing. Otherwise it gets
> confusing! There might be an easier way, but I don't know it.
Labelling the partitions sensibly is probably a better plan.
And you are almost certainly well served by being unable to access your
Linux partitions from Windoze (there are ways, but they should be treated
with extreme caution, since Windoze does not understand file permissions
properly).
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