Have any Acer Ferrari 3400 or 3200 owners tried installing Linux on these notebooks? How did the install go?
I am thinking about getting a Ferrari 3400 for Xmas. If I do then I will probably dual boot it between WinXP and Linux. I am curious as to whether there are any hardware issues when using this notebook with Linux. I'm guessing there might be some issues with wireless-G support.
Right now I run Slackware on a 32bit Athlon CPU, and from what I understand you can still run 32bit stuff on the Athlon 64 that comes with the Ferrari. Although I will probably try installing a 64bit Linux distro myself to take advantage of the Athlon64 architecture.
So far I've read that Mandrake, Gentoo, and FreeBSD (ok, not a Linux but part of the *nix family) all support AMD64 CPUs; any others?
Also, is the 4200rpm hard drive in the Ferrari a bottleneck to the rest of the system? I can't figure out why Acer would stick a 4200rpm hard drive in what appears to be a reasonably fast machine. Perhaps I can get the Acer dealer to upgrade the hard drive for slightly more $$$?
I am thinking about getting a Ferrari 3400 for Xmas. If I do then I will probably dual boot it between WinXP and Linux. I am curious as to whether there are any hardware issues when using this notebook with Linux. I'm guessing there might be some issues with wireless-G support.
Right now I run Slackware on a 32bit Athlon CPU, and from what I understand you can still run 32bit stuff on the Athlon 64 that comes with the Ferrari. Although I will probably try installing a 64bit Linux distro myself to take advantage of the Athlon64 architecture.
So far I've read that Mandrake, Gentoo, and FreeBSD (ok, not a Linux but part of the *nix family) all support AMD64 CPUs; any others?
Also, is the 4200rpm hard drive in the Ferrari a bottleneck to the rest of the system? I can't figure out why Acer would stick a 4200rpm hard drive in what appears to be a reasonably fast machine. Perhaps I can get the Acer dealer to upgrade the hard drive for slightly more $$$?
