[TriLUG] Good distro for laptops?

[Joshua Gitlin]

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Robert,

I use Mandrake 9.1, and I'm very happy with the way it works on my 
laptop. I am using an older laptop (Dell Inspiron 3000), and the only 
things that aren't working are sound and my wireless card (which isn't 
officially supported under Linux anyway). I do believe that Mandrake 
9.1 handles LinkSys wireless cards (although I'm not sure) and I do 
know that it handles power management fine on my laptop.

- -Josh

On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 12:08  PM, 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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