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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:36:20AM +0000, Julian Hall wrote: > aashish kumar wrote: > > i have HP laptop and HP is owned by microsoft ( i am sayin this coz > > they havenot provided any support for my laptop for OS other than > > Vista!! on contacting them they say your laptop is specially built for > > vista dont try any other installation and moreover the drivers they > > have given run only on vista not on xp) > > > > Aashish > I have an HP/Compaq laptop and when I rang them once for support was > told they had Linux on the same laptop in the Tech Support lab. So much > for being MS monkeys :) HP are a major supporter of the Debian project, and have been for years. IIRC ftp.debian.org lived under a desk in an office at HP for quite a while, for example. HP also (officially) support Debian on their servers. There are probably worse vendors to buy from. -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 Unix. Because rebooting is for adding new hardware. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html