I have a dell D620 laptop, intel core2 duo 2.0ghz. Built in 802.11a/b/g wireless, bluetooth, synaptics touchpad, the little j-stick IBM came up with between the ghb keys on the keyboard, plus the usual multimedia control buttons for volume, mute, battery meter and all the rest.Aleks Peshkov wrote:I as most users already have a license for Windows shipped with a new notebook. How much does it cost I do not know. I have no options to buy Lenovo Thinkpad without it. Microsoft offers Word/Excel viewers and Visual Studio Express for free.
I do not need Microsoft Office nor Adobe Photoshop. I do not use webcams or any USB modems or printers. All I want to be able to have trackpoint, touchpad, screen backlight and hardware buttons work as they do in Windows without magic. I do not talk about GNOME, wine or minors applications. I talk about basic kernel and basic X Window System functionality.
WTF? I am as average user not a kernel hacker. Instructions to fix bootstrap/X.org behavior made obsolete rapidly as the Linux community trying to make heavy locomotive fly like a fly.
Fedora 10 final dies at boot time while Fedora 9 and Fedora 10 pre did not. Ubuntu 8.10 run stable, but 9.04 again have funny bugs on routine 2008 year Centrino laptop with Intel graphics bugs here and there.
I installed Fedora 10 using the gnome desktop. When installation was over, everything worked. Period. The network manager icon would let me choose from any wireless network the wireless interface could see, it remembers the SSID and WEP key for each once you enter them (which you have to do on _any_ system anyway). My bluetooth mouse only required turning on, and hitting the connect button on the bottom, the bluetooth manager popped up and asked if I wanted to connect. I chose "always connect" and it connects every time I boot the thing. The volume buttons work. The mute buttons work. The various "hidden keys" such as brightness adjustment, flipping to the external monitor port, hibernate, standby, etc all work. Took no action on my part. The USB driver works. I've plugged in jump drives, USB floppy (laptop only has a DVD-RW drive), USB corded mouse, etch. They all work with no action required except to use them. My DVD-RW works perfectly. Recording. Data or music. My 1440x900 screen resolution. All works perfectly. Right out of the box. What more could you ask for? You don't need to be a kernel hacker or anything else. That's all urban legend with today's distributions. The only non-functional thing on my laptop is the "wifi-finder" that did not work under windows either. And this is 64 bit linux with full optimizing compiler (which the freebie from MS doesn't do) and so forth.