[TriLUG] Good distro for laptops?

[Jon Carnes]

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