Re: [TriLUG] Good distro for laptops?

[Roberto Dohnert]

I have always had better luck with SuSE 8.2 on the Laptop.  Performance is good and it picked up everything hardware wise. Michael Hrivnak wrote: 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 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: I'm looking for a new distribution for my new laptop. Here's the situation: I recently acquired an HP Pavilion ze5470. It's fairly state of the art, including a buit in DVD burner and built in 802.11g. Currently, I'm dual booting to SuSe 8.2 Professional, which is a pleasant enough distribution, but lacking, IMHO, in support for modern laptops. Specifically, it doesn't handle power management properly and its support for wireless network cards is poor. (I realize no Linux distribution currently supports the 802.11g in my machine, but SuSe also doesn't recognize my LinkSys PCMCIA card without hardcore tweaking of config files. What I'm looking for is a distribution that handles ACPI, wireless cards and 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 can be figured out by someone who is reasonably computer literate but not interested in kernel compiles. I would appreciate any and all insights you may have to offer. TIA, Robert Floyd Durham, NC

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