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.
--doug