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Thanks that makes sense. I'm leaning towards the new XPS 13 if I can find a good price on one.

I'm looking to get a portable laptop, tablet or convertible that will run Ubuntu without issues. A lot of the tablets and compact notebooks have those bay trail atom processors that don't work well with linux so I'm looking to get something with the new Core M or anything that will work with...

Thanks for the replies. I think I'll give eraser a try. Maybe I'm being a bit paranoid, but buying a used laptop off of craigslist is reason enough to be paranoid. Want to make sure nobody put anything on there to try to steal my data :)

I'm looking for a fully open-source program to use to wipe the hard drive on a used laptop I'm planning on buying before installing Linux. I've heard Dban is no longer open source and I only trust open source for this sort of thing. Any recommendations?