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I have always had better luck with SuSE 8.2 on the Laptop. Performance
is good and it picked up everything hardware wise.<br>
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<pre wrap="">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: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:trilug-bounces@trilug.org">trilug-bounces@trilug.org</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:trilug-bounces@trilug.org">mailto:trilug-bounces@trilug.org</a>] 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:
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<pre wrap="">I'm looking for a new distribution for my new laptop. Here's the
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<pre wrap="">I recently acquired an HP Pavilion ze5470. It's fairly state of the
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<pre wrap="">including a buit in DVD burner and built in 802.11g. Currently, I'm
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<pre wrap="">booting to SuSe 8.2 Professional, which is a pleasant enough
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<pre wrap="">but lacking, IMHO, in support for modern laptops. Specifically, it
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<pre wrap="">handle power management properly and its support for wireless network
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<pre wrap="">is poor. (I realize no Linux distribution currently supports the
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<pre wrap=""><!---->802.11g in
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<pre wrap="">my machine, but SuSe also doesn't recognize my LinkSys PCMCIA card
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<pre wrap="">hardcore tweaking of config files.
What I'm looking for is a distribution that handles ACPI, wireless
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<pre wrap="">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
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<pre wrap="">figured out by someone who is reasonably computer literate but not
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<pre wrap="">in kernel compiles.
I would appreciate any and all insights you may have to offer.
TIA,
Robert Floyd
Durham, NC
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