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Hi Jared,

Have a look at the laptop howto on www.tldp.org.
This will be helpful to you and gives links to sites that have reviews of specific models of laptops.


Tommy

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:30:32AM -0500, Jared wrote:
> Can someone tell me a laptop that runs debian or fedora linux with built
> in sound support using the os drivers? Dell appears to have shotty
> support at best requiring kernel recompiles, I want something that runs
> out of the box. I also want something under $2500 Appreciate any info as
> I'll probably need to run software speech on this.
> 
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