[LUAU] Good distros for Dell laptop?

Mike Matsuzaki m.matsuzaki at verizon.net
Fri Feb 3 17:52:17 PST 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:55, Clifton Royston wrote:
>   So I bought a Dell 6000 at the end of December as my last minute
> end-of-fiscal-year create-taxable-expenses item, since I really needed
> a laptop, and now I'm looking to partition it and put a Linux distro on
> half.  (I bought it with an 80GB drive to make sure I'd have room for
> two OSes.)  
> 
>   Are there any concrete differences which would make some distros
> objectively better to use for laptop, any variability with regard to
> ease of repartitioning, hardware support, APM, wireless support, etc.? 
> Or should I just pick any one that sounds good?
> 
>   Ubuntu seems to be getting a lot of mindshare, but of course so does
> Fedora, so does SUSE...  I wouldn't object to buying a well-done
> reasonably-priced distro, if it's concretely better than the
> competition.
> 
>   -- Clifton

I have a Dell 700m and dual boot with SUSE 9.3.  Most things worked out
of the box... especially 802.11g.  Video needed a patch for the wide
screen size.  I didn't try the sd card reader yet.
 
Sometimes I use my dell to watch recordings from my Myth box (FC1 Myth
0.16. Hey if it ain't broke...)

Mike




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