[TriLUG] Good distro for laptops?

Ryan Wheaton ryan.wheaton at comcast.net
Tue Oct 7 12:04:12 EDT 2003


I absolutely love OS X on my powerbook :-D

but actually, i just found this and found it interesting.  It says it 
runs on some Dell and IBM laptops.  I'm giving it a shot as we speak on 
a Dimension 2400 so we'll see.

http://www.opendarwin.org/

-r
On Tuesday, Oct 7, 2003, at 09:42 America/Denver, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> Michael Hrivnak wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Mandrake 9.2 will be realeased in the next week or so, but will
> only be available for download by club members initially.  You can,
> however, pre-order the CD or DVD in the mandrake store right now.
> That should arrive about the same time the general public is able
> to download the iso images.  Alternatively, you could join the
> Mandrake Club and download it sometime next week.
>
> Since kernel 2.6 has not be released yet, it will not be in the main
> Mandrake 9.2 distro.  Looking at the latest cooker, however, I see
> it is available as a package in contrib, so if you're really
> stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hbrave you can try it. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Tanner
> -- 
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