I have a compaq m700 and m300 and they are both running Redhat 7.1. The only thing I suggest, as with most laptops not made for *NIX operating systems is to replace the modem with a non-winmodem. Everything else on these two comps works great. I just had to replace the modem becasue they would only work under Windows. You can get a good 700MHZ for pretty cheap on EBAY also as these are "last-weeks" models.