Looks a good laptop. The only trouble I have ever had with laptops/Linux are:
1) internal modem doasnt work (M$ modems - who cares anyway)
2) might need to disable apic at boot time (will be obvious - machine just wont boot. Add "noapic" to you kernel boot parameters if this is the case)
Nvidia drivers can be downloaded from their web site - not open source though:(
I agree, but in the server/computer mainstream, people are using Linux distributions rather than self built Linux kernels and applications.
for example - already, the likes of RedHat, SuSE etc. are "certified" to run on vendor hardware (HP servers for instance) whereby the hardware vendors will not offer support for "unsupported" (read: "distributions not on their lists") Operating Systems (most other distros)
It will be an interesting future. Perhaps the LSB will be our saviour
Im very glad to see Google's continuing development into Linux.
Linux has a mass of problems right now - the biggest being the same that saw the downfall of Unix, multiple competing "distributions." Google are adding weight behind a very versitile platform. I only doubt their motives - it cant be too long now before Google release their own dekstop brand name.
Google - love them or hate them? Im not sure, but I can at least applaude some of their work.
sudo is the most secure way of allowing certain users root privileges to all or some system commands WHEN CONFIGURED PROPERLY.
"man sudoers" shows you can do a lot with sudo and restrict users/groups as much as you want.
Since coming across sudo, I have disabled root accounts on all boxes I have used. It rocks.
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Looks a good laptop. The only trouble I have ever had with laptops/Linux are: 1) internal modem doasnt work (M$ modems - who cares anyway) 2) might need to disable apic at boot time (will be obvious - machine just wont boot. Add "noapic" to you kernel boot parameters if this is the case) Nvidia drivers can be downloaded from their web site - not open source though :(
I agree, but in the server/computer mainstream, people are using Linux distributions rather than self built Linux kernels and applications.
for example - already, the likes of RedHat, SuSE etc. are "certified" to run on vendor hardware (HP servers for instance) whereby the hardware vendors will not offer support for "unsupported" (read: "distributions not on their lists") Operating Systems (most other distros)
It will be an interesting future. Perhaps the LSB will be our saviour
Im very glad to see Google's continuing development into Linux. Linux has a mass of problems right now - the biggest being the same that saw the downfall of Unix, multiple competing "distributions." Google are adding weight behind a very versitile platform. I only doubt their motives - it cant be too long now before Google release their own dekstop brand name. Google - love them or hate them? Im not sure, but I can at least applaude some of their work.
sudo is the most secure way of allowing certain users root privileges to all or some system commands WHEN CONFIGURED PROPERLY. "man sudoers" shows you can do a lot with sudo and restrict users/groups as much as you want. Since coming across sudo, I have disabled root accounts on all boxes I have used. It rocks.