[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.
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>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?
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>Michael
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>-----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?
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>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.
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>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
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>On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 12:08, Robert Floyd wrote:
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>>I'm looking for a new distribution for my new laptop. Here's the
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>>I recently acquired an HP Pavilion ze5470. It's fairly state of the
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>art, 
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>>including a buit in DVD burner and built in 802.11g. Currently, I'm
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>dual 
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>>booting to SuSe 8.2 Professional, which is a pleasant enough
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>distribution, 
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>>but lacking, IMHO, in support for modern laptops. Specifically, it
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>doesn't 
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>>handle power management properly and its support for wireless network
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>cards 
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>>is poor. (I realize no Linux distribution currently supports the
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>802.11g in 
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>>my machine, but SuSe also doesn't recognize my LinkSys PCMCIA card
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>without 
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>>hardcore tweaking of config files.
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>>What I'm looking for is a distribution that handles ACPI, wireless
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>cards and 
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>>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
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>can be 
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>>figured out by someone who is reasonably computer literate but not
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>interested 
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>>in kernel compiles.
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>>I would appreciate any and all insights you may have to offer.
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>>TIA,
>>Robert Floyd
>>Durham, NC
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