01-26-2011
Considering corporations treat preinstalled linux like the throwaway OS they put on no-OS computers(just dump it on, who cares if it supports half the hardware) it's probably for the best it didn't come preinstalled.
I don't know of a list of all possible computers and their Ubuntu compatibilities, no. Laptop models change so fast it's ridiculous, you'd be adding and obsoleting several related models a month if you tried to keep one.
What you might do is pick a netbook you like, then google "ubuntu netbook brand model etc etc" and see if anyone else tried.
There's probably guaranteed to be issues since it's hard to get stock anything running on half the notebooks and netbooks they sell. For Windows they do the dirty work of shoehorning the weird hardware into working for you, everyone else is left to clean up their mess unaided.
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G3DVIEWER(1) General Commands Manual G3DVIEWER(1)
NAME
g3dviewer - a program to display and inspect 3D models
SYNOPIS
g3dviewer [options] [<filename>]
DESCRIPTION
After loading a valid model it should appear on the screen.
Use the left mouse button to rotate the model. To move the view hold down the SHIFT key and use left mouse button.
To zoom the model use the scroll wheel or hold the middle mouse button and move the mouse up or down.
The right mouse button opens a context menu where you can open the model information dialog, set some options or change the background
color.
OPTIONS
--help Show summary of options
"UNDOCUMENTED" OPTIONS
There are also some options which are just for development.
--parse-only
Just parse the model and exit.
SUPPORTED FILE TYPES
.3mf, 3dmf
3D Metafiles.
.3ds, .prj
3D Studio objects.
.b3d unknown, but 3D Metafile format.
.cob Caligary TrueSpace objects.
.dxf AutoCAD models.
.iob Impulse Turbo Silver / Imagine objects.
.lw, .lwo, .lwb
LightWave objects.
.md2 Quake 2 models.
.nff Neutral File Format objects.
.obj Wavefront objects.
.q3o, .q3s
Quick3D objects and scenes.
.wrl VRML worlds.
BUGS
Most import plugins are incomplete. The goal is not to crash on broken input but it is not always reached.
AUTHOR
g3dviewer was written by Markus Dahms <mad@automagically.de>
july 22nd 2005 G3DVIEWER(1)