[off topic] Linux on laptop and all FLOSS?

[Eric Dunbar]

On Apr 4, 2005 10:25 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> I am planning on buying a laptop, I wouldn't rule out dual booting
> Windows but my main OS will be Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
> 
> After hours of googling I am left wondering:
> 
>  Is there a single laptop vendor that supports Linux?

>  power saving
>  modem (linmodem seems to fill the gap somewhat)
>  wlan (ndiswrapper seems evil, and I'd like to avoid it)

There's been quite a bit of discussion on PPC/Mac laptops but
everyone's missed the obvious:
<http://www.yellowdoglinux.com>.

They are a full-fledged hardware reseller that install and support
Linux (albeit Fedora-based YDL). If desired you could *triple* boot
between Ubuntu, YDL and the most refined desktop Unix available, Mac
OS X. And, if you really wanted to you could triple-boot any one of
those OSes and run Windows as well under Virtual PC! You could boot
Ubuntu, run MOL (mac-on-linux), run Mac OS X in MOL and then run
Virtual PC under Mac OSX and run Windows in VPC ;). (fortunately MOL
is not an emulation program so Mac OS X runs at 90-95% native speed
for everything but video acceleration).

The only issue is that the internal Airport Extreme card is not
supported, but any old PC(MCIA) card will work for wireless.

Eric.