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Re: [PLUG] distro for laptop?
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SuSE 7.3 is supposed to be pretty good on laptops. I
use it on my desktop (formerly windows) and I love it.
Definitely my first recomendation. Mandrake is pretty
good, too. They both are great at picking up all the
hardware.
--- Jon Galt <jongalt@pinn.net> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> my laptop is currently dual boot Win98 and a munge
> of Red Hat and
> Trustix. I'd like to make it Linux only, and also
> get some experience
> with another distribution. Is there a distribution
> that would be
> particularly suited to a/my laptop? If's a Vaio
> with 64Mb of RAM and a
> 6Gb hard disk, Pentium II processor. Display is a
> 14" NeoMagic
> MagicMedia256AV. It has a Linksys Model NP100
> ethernet card, and a built
> in modem TEAC CD-224E cdrom drive and a Rockwell HCF
> 56K Speakerphone PCI
> modem. It also has USB and infrared ports.
> That's all I can think of to say about it. A lot
> of it is probably
> irrelevant, but anyway.... I'd like a distribution
> that takes care of
> installing X, and a window manager that
> looks/operates as much like
> MS Windows as is available.
> Any recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne
>
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