[KLUG Members] Question On Linux Friendly laptop

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > We go through lots of laptops here;  you couldn't PAY me to own a Dell.
> > Flimsy garbage with an astonishing failure rate; like 3 out of 5 LCDs
> > fritzing in the first 6 months, hard drives that don't even make it a
> > year, and on an on.  HP/Compaqs have been pretty solid except for
> > touchpad/keyboard issues (and being really slow compared to other
> > models).   Toshiba's have been quite solid, you get ~2 years before they
> > start to physically fall apart (although they still 'work').  IBMs are
> > IBMs,  they keep going long after you wish they would just die already.
> Adam. Have you tried your magic hand on Sony VAIO? I am planning  to buy one.

I installed on a VAIO a very long time ago (> 2 years I think).  So I
doubt it has any bearing on the compatibility of current models.  This
was back during the brief period when VAIO ascended to the status of
"thee laptop to own.".  I installed Redhat, Apache w/PHP,  Server
Studio, and Informix Universal Server + data copied from the corporate
database sever.  This was so some people could demo web application we
had developed;  once the thing finished starting up (~20 minutes!) it
worked pretty well, although i probably took years off the life of that
poor little hard drive.

We don't have any current model VAIOs around.