<div>On 10/18/05, Bret Busby <<a href="mailto:bret@busby.net">bret@busby.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, roach wrote: > > Hi, > > Anybody manage to get their hands on one of these yet? I've tried - but can't. > > You're suppost to be able to order one of the listed laptops, with FreeDOS > pre-installed and a custom version of Ubuntu on CD. > > Nothing on HP's site, HP Customer Services knows nothing and they don't > respond to my emailed queries. > > <a href="http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/58780"> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/58780</a> > > <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/support/custom/hplaptops/view?searchterm=laptop">http://www.ubuntu.com/support/custom/hplaptops/view?searchterm=laptop</a> > <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportMachinesLaptopsHewlettPackard">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportMachinesLaptopsHewlettPackard</a> > > -- > Robert "roach" Spencer > Pietermaritzburg > South Africa > > I don't know of the specific offer, however, after reading a review of a previous offer, whereby in the USA, the HP NX5000 laptop could be purchased with SUSE Linux installed (thus, the laptop appeared to be Linux-compatible), we bought an HP NX5000 for me. Whilst the laptop had WinXP installed (I wanted a dual-boot, anyway, for a particular Windows-based genealogy application), we installed Linux on it. Initially, a problem arose with the installation of Debian Sarge (when it was testing), to do with an interrupt conflict between the network card and the WiFi device, but that was resolved by performing an install with Ubuntu 5.04, which breezed through the installation. Unfortunately, some problem arose with the Ubuntu installation (if my memory was correct, it was something to do with being unable to install PINE), so we installed Debian Sarge on the laptop, to dual-boot, and that appears to run okay. If my memory is correct, the problem with Ubuntu and PINE, was to do with PINE requiring older libraries than were present in Ubuntu 5.04. Anyway, Ubuntu 5.04 should install okay on a standard HP NX5000 laptop, from our experience. The HP NX5000 laptop is a relatively cheap laptop system, and, given the ease of installation of Ubuntu 5.04, there should not be any justifiable reason why a person on this list, cannot simply purchase an HP NX5000 and install Ubuntu 5.04 (or, even 5.10) on the laptop, without any significant problems. And, apparently, the HP NX5000/SUSE Linux pre-installed system, involved custom components in the laptop, making it SUSE-compatible, but my standard, HP NX5000/WinXP system, runs okay as a dual bootable system with Debian Sarge, and Ubuntu 5.04 apparently installed okay on it. So, you should be able to buy an HP NX5000 and install Ubuntu 5.04, if not 5.10, on it, as a dual boot system. Details relating to the NX5000 and Debian, that I had read, should be able to be found by searching using google, and "Linux" and "NX5000" as keywords, to find the reviews. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div> I asked about an HP Desktop from the HP reseller here in Manila but when they sent me the quote HP doesnt sell it. I suppose it will still be a while before Hp lives up to its promise of selling Hp machines with linux pre-installed. Charles