Author: Andy Random Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ebuyer Netbook Bargain
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Tony Whitmore wrote:
>> SLED? Never heard of it... Is it to be avoided for some reason?
>
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Edition. Draw your own conclusions.
Thanks Tony, guess that shows how much attention I personally pay to SUSE
given that I didn't recognise the acronym...
> In theory not, but all the hardware might not work out of the box on
> other distros, with some of these ultra-portables having hardware which
> is currently only supported with binary blobs on certain kernels.
Yeah I guess that is a risk with any specialist/custom hardware.
