[TriLUG] Good distro for laptops?

[Michael Hrivnak]

I second that.  I use Mandrake 9.1 on my Dell Inspiron 5000 and love it.
The only thing I miss is a GUI for the wireless tools.  But, to its
credit, it will automatically connect to the closest wireless network,
which is enough for most home users.

If there were a release date for 9.2, I'd definitely be counting down
the days.  Any thoughts on the 2.6 kernel's release?  Will it make it
into Mandrake 9.2?

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Jon Carnes
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:35 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Good distro for laptops?

Mandrake 9.1 (soon to be 9.2) gets my vote.  It worked great on my old
Toshiba. The power management worked fine, and it worked with my old
PCMCIA hardware.

I'm running Red Hat 9 on that laptop now, and it works good as well -
though not as nicely as the Mandrake did.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 12:08, Robert Floyd wrote:
> I'm looking for a new distribution for my new laptop. Here's the
situation:
> 
> I recently acquired an HP Pavilion ze5470. It's fairly state of the
art, 
> including a buit in DVD burner and built in 802.11g. Currently, I'm
dual 
> booting to SuSe 8.2 Professional, which is a pleasant enough
distribution, 
> but lacking, IMHO, in support for modern laptops. Specifically, it
doesn't 
> handle power management properly and its support for wireless network
cards 
> is poor. (I realize no Linux distribution currently supports the
802.11g in 
> my machine, but SuSe also doesn't recognize my LinkSys PCMCIA card
without 
> hardcore tweaking of config files.
> 
> What I'm looking for is a distribution that handles ACPI, wireless
cards and 
> notebook type 3D graphics cards out of the box/CD. 3D support is less 
> important than the other two. It should also be a distribution that
can be 
> figured out by someone who is reasonably computer literate but not
interested 
> in kernel compiles.
> 
> I would appreciate any and all insights you may have to offer.
> 
> TIA,
> Robert Floyd
> Durham, NC

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