Buying a laptop without MS

[Paul Schulz]

Hi Bohdan,

On 6/15/06, Bohdan S <bohdan.s at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> Selling laptops with ubuntu i dont think is a great idea as yet, me and all
> my uni freinds are currently running ubuntu on laptops and ALL of us have
> some issue somewhere with it, all have problems with WPA wireless for
> example and only half of us have things like battery monitering,
> suspend/hibanate and speetstep control

Do you have, or could you get, a list of laptop models and hardware
that you have issues with... (particularly if you bought the machines
in Australia)

Unless you've already done it, there are pages on the Ubuntu Wiki
where you can list your laptop and the issues that are still
outstanding. There are also help instructions on how to test a laptop
with Ubuntu.

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportMachinesLaptops
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTesting

There is also the 'hwdb-gui' tool which you can use to automatically
report hardware issues for Ubuntu developers if you connected to the
internet.

Every little bit of information helps make Ubuntu better for everyone.

> Bohdan

Cheers,
Paul Schulz