[TriLUG] 1.2.3.4. I declare a distro war...

[Dave Sorenson]

ROTFLOL!!!!

Thanks I just got out of a heavy meeting and needed that!!

Dave S.

 

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Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 4:00 PM
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Subject: RE: [TriLUG] 1.2.3.4. I declare a distro war...



> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Schulz [mailto:sws at trilug.org]
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 2:45 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] 1.2.3.4. I declare a distro war...
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 02:37:40PM -0400, Dave Sorenson wrote:
> > I understand and acknowledge this is throwing gasoline on a
> forest fire, but
> > I feel <EVIL GRIN> mischievous </EVIL GRIN> today. I'm
> finally ready to dual
> > boot my new Compaq laptop, gotta keep XP so I'm looking for
> good dual boot
> > behavior. (I know XP is the bratty kid in my dual boot
> classroom, but I need
> > a distro that will coexist as well as it can). Good
> hardware support is
> > tops, Knoppix finds all the hardware except the Broadcom
> wireless, I'll use
> > NDIS wrapper for that.
> > 
> > My question given the power/special hibernate/ handle M$XP
> shenanigans, what
> > is the best distro to load on a modern laptop? 
> 
FLAME ON

Real Men use Gentoo....

FLAME OFF

> 
> I won't join in the war, but I will state that I have happily used 
> both MDK 9.x and now SuSE 9.0 on my Compaq 2525US.  MDK found most, 
> SuSE found all of the hardware, and while I haven't used it to put the 
> machine to sleep, it accurately reports battery status etc.  Wireless, 
> sound, etc all work splendidly, as does the CD burner.
> 
> SWS
>  
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