[Lancaster] Linux on a Laptop

[Ken Hough]

Martyn,

The look and feel of Mandrake installer is good. In SuSE v9.1, Yast 
seems more 'polished' and has taken in some aspects of Mandrake. eg a 
friendly progress list down the left side of the display. SuSE now 
provides auto mounting of CDs, etc and it seems to work well. This was 
an aspect of Mandrake which in my limited experience was a bit iffy.

BTW, I've run 'remote X' on the laptop from an Athlon box. I still have 
the problem that the command 'X -broadcast' won't work. X runs, but 
doesn't find the Athlon box. Have run with firewall disabled, but that 
didn't solve it. 'X -query <IP address>' is OK. Can't figure it out. The 
Athlon is OK as 'X -broadcast' works using an earlier distro on my test 
box. Any suggestions?

I run 'xdm' on the Athlon box.

Ken Hough

Martyn Welch wrote:

 > As a mandrake fan I have to say that sometimes it's less than 
perfect, > however I prefer the look and feel and have grown quite 
atttached to urpmi...
 >
 > However it's nice to see that Linux support for laptops is improving. 
 > Need to get arount to installing a newer disto on my little old beauty.
 >
 > Martyn