[TriLUG] Good distro for laptops?

[Roy Vestal]

Sorry for the second reply, but gotta reitterate that my RHL 9 box
autoconfig straight out of the box, no wireless problems. Even got WEP
working!

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 14:31, 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: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] 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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