Pre-installed Linux Notebooks (a list)

Xeroid

An overview of notebooks available in the US with Linux pre-installed.

LINK

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Ubuntu 10.04 . . . Kernel-2.6.32-22

mushroom · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2025 3:13 am Post subject:

Nice page

Here is an other to look at http://lxer.com/module/db/?dbn=14

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SuSE 8.0, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.0, 11.1
Live CDs Mepis 8.0, Puppy 4.3.1, netbook- Zenwalk 6.2

Xeroid · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2025 3:49 am Post subject:

Cool.

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Ubuntu 10.04 . . . Kernel-2.6.32-22

JP · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2025 4:46 am Post subject:

Personally. I like this site -- Preloaded Dot Com Clik Wink

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Dell Box - Arch Linux
Dell Lappy - DreamLinux 3.5 - Default OS
Mepis 8.0 - Backup

bdquick · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2025 12:04 am Post subject:

Do I smell a new STICKY post?

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OpenSuse 11.1 11, 10.2
Arch Linux

Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2025 12:05 am Post subject:

I'll go get the mop....

J/K

It's got my vote.

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ArchLinux x86_64 - Custom Built Desktop
ArchLinux x86_64 - Compaq CQ50 Laptop
ArchLinux i686 - Acer Aspire One Netbook
ArchLinux i686 - Dell Presario ze2000 (w/ shattered LCD)

PuppyLinux, CloneZilla, PartedMagic, DBAN - rescue thumbdrives
Windows 7 (x86_64 desktop alternate boot)

tlmiller · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2025 12:07 am Post subject:

Woo-Hoo, has my new baby on it, the Studio 15!!!! Course, mine was a heck of a lot more expensive than the base price....that 1920x1200 res panel is EXPENSIVE!!! And 9-cell battery ain't cheap.

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Desktops: shadowdragon, medusa
Laptops: bluedrake, banelord, sandwyrm, aardvark.

crouse · Site Admin Joined: 17 Apr 2025 Posts: 11833 Location: Iowa

coastie · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2025 10:31 am Post subject:

I have the EEE PC Very Happy

it's very cool.

I have heard some good things about the MSI Wind. The computer store my dad takes his computer to uses MSI hw pretty exclusively. They swear by them. Next time I go see my folks I'm going to see if they have one that I can play with Wink

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Ubuntu on the thinkpad
Easy Peasy on the EEEPC
Desktop is down.

julian516 · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2025 12:24 pm Post subject:

Good list. If anybody is interested I have been using a System 76 Pangolin for several months now. Good Linux box, very good tech support. Probably worth a look.

I did a review over on the ExtremeTech website some months ago. Search on user name julian516,

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Ubuntu 9.10
Mandriva 2025 KDE
siduxKDE/antiX

mmmna · . . . . Joined: 21 Apr 2025 Posts: 7224

To me, the starry hope website lost 5 points.

Mostly for not researching very deeply. They say the EeePC 900 has 16 Gig Solid state drive (my 900A has 4 Gig SSD), a Celeron M 353 (my 900A has an Atom N270) and a camera (no camera for my 900A). I'm only trying to point out that the "EeePC 900" is a series of no less than 5 netbooks (900SD, 900HA, 900HD, 900A, 900), not a single model of netbook. Why does that matter? There are models of the 900 family which do NOT offer Linux preinstalled; a shopper might not appreciate brick and mortar stores that only stock a Windows XP box instead of a Linux box.

That would make me feel that there might be other families of netbooks.

mmmna · . . . . Joined: 21 Apr 2025 Posts: 7224

ZaReason "Building Linux hardware so you don't have to".
http://www.zareason.com/shop/home.html

Offers servers, desktops, laptops and netbooks with Linux preinstalled. They have i7 Systems, too.

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-Kubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta2 on Celeron D desktop
-PCLinuxOS 2025 LXDE on EeePC 900A with Atom n270 (modded with 32G SATA drive and 2G ram).

mmmna · . . . . Joined: 21 Apr 2025 Posts: 7224

Starting with consumer grade stuff and heading up:

http://www.ibexpc.com/linuxsystems.html currently offering Ubuntu 9.10, Fedora Core 12, Red Hat Enterprise WS and openSuse 11.2 on desktop systems from Pentium D to i7, Athlon II up to Phenom X4; also Laptops from Asus in the 2G and 4G family (Notebooks with only 7" screens)

http://www.system76.com/ Ubuntu on desktops (Atom to i7), laptops (Atom to i7) and servers (Pentium to quad Xeon).

http://www.penguincomputing.com/ they mention Red Hat and SuSe, offering true workstations - 1 or 2 Xeon 5500 to 2x6 core Opterons, servers using Intel Relion or AMD Altus processors; as well as blade servers, HPC setups.

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-Kubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta2 on Celeron D desktop
-PCLinuxOS 2025 LXDE on EeePC 900A with Atom n270 (modded with 32G SATA drive and 2G ram).

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