Acer Aspire 5101 Turion 64

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Nigel Ridley wrote:
> Joan Tur wrote:
>> Es Divendres, 2 de Març de 2007, en Nigel Ridley va escriure: |
>> I checked on the web but couldn't find much in English :-( about
>> installing | Linux on an Acer Aspire 5101 laptop (AMD Turion 64).
>>  | | Anybody had any joy in installing *ubuntu (or have any info
>> about any Linux | distro) on this machine. At
>> http://tuxmobil.org/acer.html you'll find a few 51xx entries
>> (5100, 5102 and 5112), that will probably match your hardware.
>> 
>> Hope that helps  ;)
>> 
>> 
> Thanks but I had already checked out what was there and, apart from
> a French 'link' (which, as far as I could tell, had nothing to do
> with the Acer laptop) there wasn't any other useful information. 
> There was something on Linux Laptops [http://linux-laptop.net/]
> installing Debian on an Acer Aspire 5102WLMi but the guy had some
> problems with sound and some other things. Another one 
> [http://linux-laptop.net/hosted/Fedora-Ubuntu-Acer-Aspire-5102WLMi.html]
> couldn't even get any of the several distros that he tried to
> install.
> 
> So perhaps I will put up the extra cash and get a Lenevo - Kubuntu
> does install OK on them - yes?

I saw an adverse comment about linux on a lenovo recently - from a
student who was disappointed.

Sorry I cannot find the detailcomment. Just that lenovo are not
necessarily as committed to linux as ibm were, so I would continue
checking stuff out if you can, and or use a live CD at least, before
purchase. I did this in a high street camera shop, one camera did not
set up easily (live CD kubuntu 6.10, my laptop) another did straight
away, Bought it! Done! I gave the live CD to the shop assistant.
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