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Dell Supporting Linux on Laptops

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-a-start dept.

SPI3LB3RG writes "Dell now supports Linux for it's laptops. Down at the bottom of the page is a listing of Drivers by OS." My old Inspiron basically fell apart. But it was running Linux for years before I wore out the keyboard, broke the CD-ROM drive, and the hard drive started failing ;)

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  1. Linux on laptops by joshamania · · Score: 3

    I've had wonderful experience with dell laptops and linux. I've had a Latitude CPi and now a CPia and have had no trouble whatsoever with the laptop itself. It sets up fairly easily for X, and the Redhat installer picked just about everything up on it's own. Hell, I think the X video driver that whoever wrote for the Neomagic in the Dell is better than the Windows driver.

    For you other laptop users:

    http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-lap top/mirrors.html

  2. Re:-NOT ALL DELL LAPTOPS SUPPORTED- by kzinti · · Score: 4

    My brand-new Inspiron 3700 doesn't have any Linux patches listed, thank you Dell.

    The I3700 is very similar component-wise to the I7500, so the linux stuff posted there might work for your I3700. I plan to at least try the sound driver.

    For more information on configuring linux for the I3700, see my page Linux on the Dell Inspiron 3700. Much of this information was gleaned from pages about the I7500: Jim Frost's page Linux on the Inspiron 7500 and Steve Hsieh's page Linux on a Dell Inspiron 7000/7500 Laptop . (I see on checking Steve Hsieh's page that he's now added "3700" to the title, so he may have additional information about the I3700.)

    --Jim