[TriLUG] Good distro for laptops?

[Meyer, David R]

Xandros...flawless performance, great hardware detection, etc.  Of the
four distros I use, this is by far the best.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Floyd
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 12:09 PM
To: TriLUG
Subject: [TriLUG] Good distro for laptops?


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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