[Novalug] favorite new laptops?

[Matt Bidwell]

Julia Christianson wrote:
> Has anyone bought a laptop lately that "just works"?  I need to buy
> something to send to my sister in Oklahoma ... she's never run Linux
> for any period of time, but she knows she doesn't want Windows ;-).
> I'll probably put CentOS on it even though I know ubuntu would
> probably be better because (a) I'll be her sole support and I don't
> know ubuntu and (b) I know CentOS will be supported for some
> reasonable period of time.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.  Oh, and price is of course always a
> factor but not the primary consideration.  (Resistance to failure and
> an old-folks-readable screen are the primary considerations, with wifi
> that won't break when a new kernel is installed coming in a close third.)
> 
> -- Julia

I don't know centos per se, but I do know RHEL.  I like RHEL on the
IBM T40 through T60 lines.  The only thing you would need to do
is get the madwifi drivers from http://rpm.pbone.net/ which
is very easy when you do the advanced search and look only
for drivers from centos/rhel.  After that it should just work.

Matt