I remember these woes. I have kids and different laptops, Asus EeePC, Dell, HP.....
It became a mater of chosing a distro. My IRLP/VOIP runs CentOS 4.8 (that is fixed) However, all the various wifi cards etc (Dell gave the most grief here) made me try various live-cds. I settled on PCLinuxOS (we use Gnome & XFCE) and on Debian 6 as a secondary. PCLinuxOS was the only distro that had enough drivers to work on Everything. Linux Mint came in second. Debian 6 joined second place when it finally made 6. but Debian is more for long term stable use and I do just that. Test different LiveCDs. I had a very old Dell that the only thing it could work with was PCLinuxOS ZEN edition which is a minimal gnome desktop and it was the only distro which would fully boot and recognize evrything on this old desktop. My understanding is that much of this all rides on which kernel version a distro uses. Anyway, dont be afraid to experiment and try them. Try the Magazine Linux Format. A but pricy but it is great to learn form and stay up-to-date plus you get a DVD every month with distros and programs to try. What do I know? I never had this much fun in Windows ;-) Scott wrote: > > These might be tricky with CentOS. Generally, one tries to get to card ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
