Linux installation and configuration guides for Area, Aurora, Sentia, Ozma, Roswell, MJ-12 laptops and notebooks made by AlienWare. Compatibility reports about running other Unix systems e.g. BSD, Solaris are welcome, too. And don't miss the resource section at the bottom, containing links to applications, tools, utilities, drivers, community portals, HOWTOs and FAQs. Have you written an installation tutorial yourself? Then please feel free to submit a new entry.

AlienWare Area-51m(http://cpbotha.net/clevo5600/clevo5600_linux/)	Debian
AlienWare Area-51m 5500	Debian Sarge
AlienWare Area-51m 5500(http://tinyurl.com/8do2c)	Debian Sarge
AlienWare Area-51m 5500(http://blog.printf.net/articles/2006/04/20/linux-on-the-alienware-m5500)	Fedora Core 5
AlienWare Area-51m 5500(https://opensource.luminis.net/confluence/display/A51m/Home)	Gentoo 2004.1
AlienWare Area-51m 5620	Gentoo 2005.0
AlienWare Area-51m 5750(http://loup.net/alienware.txt)	Fedora Core 5
AlienWare Area-51m 7700(http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/alienware/)	Gentoo
AlienWare Area-51m 7700(http://vg.homelinux.net/articles/Alienware/index.html)	Slackware 10.1
AlienWare Area-51m 7700(https://opensource.luminis.net/confluence/display/A51m/Home)	Gentoo 2004.1
AlienWare Sentia	Mandriva (Mandrake)

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Resources

• Laptop Manufacturers: Linux Status Survey
• manufacturer site: AlienWare
• Linux Mobile Guide - Installing, Maintaining and Tuning of Linux on Mobile Computers
• How to do-it-yourself Alienware laptop and notebook upgrading, repairing and modding(http://repair4laptop.org/disassembly_alienware.html).
• vendors which sell pre-installed Linux laptops, notebooks, PDAs or mobile phones

Original Equipment Manufacturer - OEM

If you are looking for drivers, software and service manuals for laptops and notebooks you may sometimes find similar models branded under a different name. Especially the FCC-ID can be helpful to detect the original manufacturer.

• OEM relations between manufacturers
• See also Uniwill.
• FCC ID: unknown