Subject says a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop, new as of August 2004. Has
Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200 video w/32 Mb video RAM, running Windows XP
Home on NTFS with 32 Gb available.
I've previously run Mandrake 8.1, 8.2, Su8.2 Pro (boxed edition) on an
older laptop now dead -- no dual-boot. I was fairly happy with SuSE 8.2.
I'd like to make this laptop dual-boot and am considering SuSE 9.2 Pro
(download edition) or maybe Ubuntu (Live CD works great with the "NV"
video driver option.) I run Debian Sarge on another machine and have
always had no great luck getting X to run in Debian -- video driver
problems usually.
The biggest things I am concerned about is the Nvidia driver and the
Dell Wireless WLAN 1350 802.11g card (none of the live CDs I've tried
ever found it, configured it, enabled it.) Of course, power management
and standard, modern laptop options. Another concern is avoiding bloat
-- I want the option to load lightweight desktops if I so desire. I'm
fairly certain that I'll be setting up a FAT32 partition to share data
(read & write support) between Windows XP and the whatever Linux distro
I install.
Any thoughts from the list on good distros for laptop? Any experience
with distros that seem to be best for laptops? Thanks in advance for any
and all help/suggestions.
-*-Bill
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