On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 01:34 +0530, Sanjay Arora wrote:
> However, I am in a fix now. I need to buy a high end laptop, (4 GB
> RAM, 200 GB HDD, 17" Screen, Touchpad, Integrated Webcam and Full
> Multimedia, so that the system can double as a Personal Entertainment
> Device High End Audio/Video on long trips). I will need to run Centos
> & Windows virtualized with Xen or some other hypervisor, for my some
> of my office applications
If it's CentOS you're interested in, you're on the wrong
list.
As I said in my OP, I use Fedora, presently 8 (However I do tend to
upgrade to new versions as soon as they are available. However, my
Company runs Centos 5 & Windows and I wish to run them under
virtualization.
But I
bought a fairly new Asus laptop at the end of last year, and just about
everything works on it (haven't tried firewire, the multi-card reader
only manages to read SD-RAM cards, the webcam isn't usable). Using
Ubuntu on the same laptop, the webcam does work.
That's the problem with the literature out there. Just like your post,
users have tried & reported various hardware and posted their results.
Sometimes they have outlined workarounds & sometimes an alternate
linux versions where their hardware works.
No one points out a version where software works on the hardware out
of the box. I think, each community should at least adopt at least 3
Models (low-end, medium-end & high-end) of any one manufacturer and
support them. If average users get a model supported out of the box,
buyers like us would definitely end up buying more laptops fully
supported by their distros.
This may even create a Virtuous Circle where seeing incremental sales
through support of a linux distro the manufacturers may even become
more open to co-operate with the community.
With best regards.
Sanjay.