[TriLUG] What is the Best 'Laptop Linux'?

Kevin Flanagan kevin at flanagannc.net
Thu Jul 10 22:12:27 EDT 2008


I just finished an installation of Fedora 9 on my T61, works very well "out
of the box".

Kevin

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Kevin J. <mrkevinj at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've been running Ubuntu on my old Dell Inspiron and it's worked
> flawlessly, but I'm very impressed with OpenSUSE 11. I'd have to say that it
> ranks number one in the "everything just works" category thus far. I haven't
> installed it on a laptop yet, but Novell is pushing hard to get in tight
> with both HP and Lenovo so I'd imagine that OpenSUSE will have a lot of nice
> laptop-centric features being built in over the coming months. There are
> already a number of "tablet" and "pen" features in OpenSUSE and I'd love to
> see a really good Linux-based tablet pc on the market.
>
> -kevin
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: ak dom <akdom2001 at yahoo.com>
> To: Trilug Mailing List <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 7:43:10 PM
> Subject: [TriLUG] What is the Best 'Laptop Linux'?
>
> I'm sorry if someone has already asked this question, but here goes:
>
> I recently bought a Lenovo ThinkPad T61p with Vista installed (the license
> was relatively cheap... and windows can be useful at times), and am now
> getting ready to reformat the drive and install what will be my primary OS
> on this computer: Some Flavor of Linux.  My first thought was to go with
> Fedora 9, since it's what I'm used.  Then I considered the fact that Lenovo
> gives the option of preloading SUSE on some of its computers, meaning that
> openSUSE should have decent support for non-standard buttons, and the
> fingerprint reader.  But, well, the decision is still up in the air....
>
> So, I have kind of a three part question:  What Linux flavor do you think I
> should use?  Which distro do you use?  And what do you think is the best
> variant for laptops in general?  Oh, and why?
>
> Thanks in advance for any and all input on the subject,
> Alex Kesling
>
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