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Review: LinuxCertified LC2210 Laptop

Posted by timothy on from the it-plays-oggs dept.

'It's me' writes "OSNews reviews LinuxCertified's LC2210 laptop, which comes with Xandros Desktop 2.0. That laptop is meant to be 100% certified with Linux, but Xandros seemed to have problems with it (namely there is no "sleep" function, while WiFi was not as robust as users would want it). LinuxCertified said that newer distros should be able to support this laptop with no hickups. The reviewer concludes that this a great purchase, as long as you are more selective over the distro installed."

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  1. In Soviet Russia. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    . . . Linux Certifies YOU!

    (ducks)

  2. The real problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The real issue is how bad Linux sucks.

  3. Fee? Excuse me? by King+Slashbot · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ever heard of free? As in speech? Charging money for this goes against the entire philosophy of GNU and FSF.

    All the information is out there, why not just provide it freely to end users. After all, information wants to be free!

  4. Fuck OSNews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    This fucking bullshit can't go on! Eugenia Loli is behind all of this relentless whoring of her shit website. I'm sick and tired of the Slashdot editors promoting her. The question is how many cybersex favors she's done for Taco and the rest of the sexless editors in exchange for this free advertising. In an effort to expose this cunt's aliases I list her known ones below:
    1. Gentu
    2. JigSaw
    3. Reader
    4. 'It's me'
    Feel free to add any more suspected Eugenia Loli pseudonyms you find.
  5. Anyone tried Debian on this notebook? by Debian+Troll's+Best · · Score: 0, Troll
    While it is encouraging to see Linux certified hardware like the LC2210 laptop being sold, judging from the OSNews review it isn't all that much more Linux-compatible than a run of the mill Dell, IBM or Toshiba. To really lure new users across from the x86 or Macintosh worlds, a 'Linux certified' notebook needs to offer up a flawless experience. The notebook needs to wake instantly from sleep, 100% of the time. Wireless LAN needs to auto-detect nearby access points and automatically connect to them as required. And of course, video, sound, USB and FireWire all need to function without a new user ever having to edit, let alone be aware of the numerous /etc configuration files and kernel paramters necessary for these subsystems to work.

    Anyways...as I said before, it's a good sign that companies are starting to make the effort to differentiate their notebook offerings on the basis of explicit Linux support, even if there is a little work that needs to be done yet. I am certainly interested in ordering one of these machines, as my old Dell Inspiron with a 500MHz Pentium III CPU running GNU/Debian Linux is certainly starting to show its age. I would still have a few questions about the LC2210's Debian compatibility though. Not mentioned in the review is the notebook's compatibility with apt-get, for instance. Do people think that I would be able to use apt-get without running into typical issues like robust ACPI support? Does anyone know what graphics chip this thing is using, and if so, would it work without screen corruption when using heavily GUI-oriented apps like dselect?

    I look forward to the community's response!!

  6. Re:I am glad to see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nothing better than licking Ariel Sharon's asshole.

    Commander in Chief
    George W Bush