[TriLUG] What is the Best 'Laptop Linux'?

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I have Fedora 9 on my R61 and it installed perfectly.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Kevin Flanagan <kevin at flanagannc.net>
wrote:

> I just finished an installation of Fedora 9 on my T61, works very well "out
> of the box".
>
> Kevin
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Kevin J. <mrkevinj at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been running Ubuntu on my old Dell Inspiron and it's worked
> > flawlessly, but I'm very impressed with OpenSUSE 11. I'd have to say that
> it
> > ranks number one in the "everything just works" category thus far. I
> haven't
> > installed it on a laptop yet, but Novell is pushing hard to get in tight
> > with both HP and Lenovo so I'd imagine that OpenSUSE will have a lot of
> nice
> > laptop-centric features being built in over the coming months. There are
> > already a number of "tablet" and "pen" features in OpenSUSE and I'd love
> to
> > see a really good Linux-based tablet pc on the market.
> >
> > -kevin
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: ak dom <akdom2001 at yahoo.com>
> > To: Trilug Mailing List <trilug at trilug.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 7:43:10 PM
> > Subject: [TriLUG] What is the Best 'Laptop Linux'?
> >
> > I'm sorry if someone has already asked this question, but here goes:
> >
> > I recently bought a Lenovo ThinkPad T61p with Vista installed (the
> license
> > was relatively cheap... and windows can be useful at times), and am now
> > getting ready to reformat the drive and install what will be my primary
> OS
> > on this computer: Some Flavor of Linux.  My first thought was to go with
> > Fedora 9, since it's what I'm used.  Then I considered the fact that
> Lenovo
> > gives the option of preloading SUSE on some of its computers, meaning
> that
> > openSUSE should have decent support for non-standard buttons, and the
> > fingerprint reader.  But, well, the decision is still up in the air....
> >
> > So, I have kind of a three part question:  What Linux flavor do you think
> I
> > should use?  Which distro do you use?  And what do you think is the best
> > variant for laptops in general?  Oh, and why?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any and all input on the subject,
> > Alex Kesling
> >
> >
> >
> >
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