Josh Coffman wrote:
Let me say first, I like Fedora if only for the fact
I've learned a lot getting it working on my laptop.
I'd like a distro that will run well on my hp z5440
laptop, and is easy to update, and makes a good
desktop for non-techies. This weekend I went to
moviefone.com to check previews for some movies and it
wouldn't play any even though I have the mplayer
plugin installed in firefox. I don't mind solving
problems; actually I kinda like it. I just want to do
it all the time.
I'm thinking of Mepis or Ubuntu or OpenSuSe.
Whichever I choose for the laptop may end up going on
the desktop also. Any opinions?
-j
Gentoo Gentoo Gentoo!! I knew a bit about linux before installing gentoo
on my nx9105, but now I'm happy compiling kernels and tweaking
networking etc by hand which I would never have been happy doing - had
the laptop up and running within a day, with a custom kernel compiled,
and no rubbish packages... just the ones I actually wanted (Had used
mandrake 10 (? about 2 years ago...) previously, which just filled up
with stacks of software I never used, and the package manager was always
causing trouble).. we now have gentoo on a athlon XP laptop, a dell
intel laptop, and an amd 64 shuttle box (file/webserver), and all three
are running like a dream.
Portage (the 'package management' system) is really really easy to get
the latest version/rollback/remove a piece of software (as long as an
ebuild exists in the portage tree - about 99% of packages I've ever
needed have been supported), and the ability to do a 'world' update with
all dependancies sorted out is fab.
to install a 'package' is as easy as:
emerge mozilla-firefox
to update the entire system is as easy as
emerge world
Everything is built from source against your own system configuration -
ie dont want KDE support? Then dont add it to your use flags, and you
dont get all the KDE extensions compiled in...
Documentation is fab also, and have seen a few other people on this list
running Gentoo also so should be a bit of help here for anything
specific to these laptops.
Just my $0.02 worth... :-)
cheers
Rach
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