On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:03:27 +0530, Sumeet Madhukar Moghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For my money, Mandrake and Suse are the most popular distros that run laptops.
yep, i use mdk 10.1 on my 2.5 yr old sony vaio works fine. although i havent tried USB or memory stick or cd writing or pcmcia/wireless lan, I've read online it works well. I'm waiting for a MDK release (10.3 ?) to come out with the new KDE 3.4 (maybe 6 months time?). the soon-to-be-released (april maybe) 10.2 has kde 3.3 with backported fixes from 3.4. NOTE my internal dialup modem is one of those winmodem/softmodem things (conexant) so you'll have problems with that (i used the free driver from linuxant.com which limits your speed to 14.4kbps). im sure most if not ALL laptops will have that problem unless they com preinstalled with linux like HP/Compaq + TuboLinux or IBM thinkpad (TP). a commercial distro like Suse or Mandrake (from the Club) might have supported commercial drivers for it. but if you get a broadband (dsl/ethernet) connection, will work fine. (maybe USB will work too, but try to get ethernet) You can search online and see www.linux-laptop.net for entries about some models with some distro versions and what level of success people have with it (some entries may be old). > Also if you are burning your divx to a disc, then you might as well burn your > disc after creating an emovix(http://movix.sourceforge.net/) ISO, so that There's also this cool-looking GeexBox thing similar to emovix at http://geexbox.org/ (again, i havent tried these out myself yet, will do it soon) -- "Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at it's end madness and chaos lie." -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
