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I also have a Toshiba laptop running Mdk 9.2, totally painless install. Everything
recognised out of the box (including internal Wifi) except Winmodem.<br>
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Bob Winter<br>
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Iain Lennon wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I have what looks like the same laptop running Mandrake 9.2. The only
difficulty I've had is that you may need to make some pcmcia config changes
so that the sound works. Otherwise seems to be a very good match. Happy to be
of any help.
Iain Lennon
On Monday 05 Jan 2004 20:19, Robert Macaraeg wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have doing some research on dumping MS windows and installing linux on a
Dell Latitude notebook P2 300Mhz, w/128Mb RAM and a 6Gb, that I will be
getting soon.
It looks like it Libranet has many good recommendations like the previous
post and this article (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5274">http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5274</a>) and no
major detractors. I am new at using linux and will be trying to install it
as soon the CDs arrive. I was just going to reformat the head drive with
whipe MS windows off the computer and then do an install. I will be buying
some books for new users to Linux to help during the transition soon. I
plan to join the Linux users group next month (can not attend due to work
conflict). Any other helpful tips? After reading what MS has in store for
users with the digital rights issues, it gave me the willies. Time to
switch. Cheers,
Bob
Bunter Matthew <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:matthew.bunter@renaultvi.com"><matthew.bunter@renaultvi.com></a> wrote:
Craig,
Libranet is my distro of choice after trying RH, Suse, Mandrake and an
attempt with Debian (Libranet is Debian made easier BTW). Mike Leuty on
this list also uses it - he would be able to answer the more technical
questions better than I can. The latest versions have to be paid for but
you get a polished result. One of my favourite aspects was that IceWM is
the default WM. Fast, unobtrusive and keyboard friendly. An older version
of Libranet is available for free download though.
One downside (from my point of view) is the mix of stable, testing and
unstable packages. I have my sources list to point to stable now after
being burnt by Evolution. Maybe more experienced Debian users don't have
this problem but it certainly caused me pain.
My experience with RPM left a sour taste. However I understand that up2date
and other tools now give the same reliability to RPM that apt, aptitude,
dselect and Synaptic have.
Regards,
Matt
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Objet : [Nottingham] any thoughts on distros?
Hi all
Am currently using SuSE 8.1 but am wanting to try something more
community based. I am currently toying with installing Fedora and Libranet.
If anyone has any experience of these or can suggest others for me to
look into I would be very grateful
yours
Craig
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