Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264119AbTKUBC0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:02:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264126AbTKUBC0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:02:26 -0500 Received: from draal.physics.wisc.edu ([128.104.222.75]:13502 "EHLO moya.mcelrath.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264119AbTKUBCY (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:02:24 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:01:55 -0800 From: Bob McElrath To: jt@hpl.hp.com Cc: "Mudama, Eric" , Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: Announce: ndiswrapper Message-ID: <20031121010155.GB10026@mcelrath.org> Mail-Followup-To: jt@hpl.hp.com, "Mudama, Eric" , Linux kernel mailing list References: <785F348679A4D5119A0C009027DE33C105CDB514@mcoexc04.mlm.maxtor.com> <20031121000031.GA17869@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031121000031.GA17869@bougret.hpl.hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1744 Lines: 53 --6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jean Tourrilhes [jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com] wrote: >=20 > My point is : why buy this laptop if it's not 100% > supported ? They are plenty of other laptops... There are not plenty. By the time you limit yourself to: 1) No nvidia 2) Supported wireless 3) Non-winmodem 4) OSS driver for sound=20 5) Not paying for windoze you're left with a fairly small set of laptops and vendors, and I haven't even started considering the hardware I *do* want yet. (processor, HDD, RAM, screen, etc) For the record I maintain a list of linux and no-OS laptop vendors: http://mcelrath.org/laptops.html and there aren't that many. Go through there product lines and start cutting out winmodems, broadcam wireless and nvidia, and there is very little left. The problem is consumers don't build laptops, companies do. I can build my desktop component-by-component. (Rally now for open, interchangable laptop hardware!) Cheers, Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics] --6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/vWQDjwioWRGe9K0RAutpAKCt+OiDdon4NAAXI1JnAGvjhlQfsACg1J9G psLCl0Q1IPcOwnEH70x63IU= =sd7m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6sX45UoQRIJXqkqR-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/