[HLUG] Which distro for a laptop?

[dicegeorge at hotmail dot com]

my laptop came with clever stuff
to slow the processer down if its not needed,
eg when typing,
i doubt a standard linus would have the drivers for that,
but i dont know how their drivers work...

saw a white asus eepc for £199.99 in pcworld hereford,
looks very nice,
2G of which  1466MB is OS,
still the 430MB left is equivalent to 400 floppies,
and it takes a flash card too!

                   [george]

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From: "Si" <si2033 at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 3:59 PM
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Which distro for a laptop?

> I have never run Windows on this laptop only sidux, so I have nothing to
> compare the heat levels with. It gets warm, but not excessively hot. To 
> find
> out if it will suit your laptop, download the distro then burn and run a 
> live
> disc.
>
> Sue.
>
> On Wednesday 09 Jul 2008, Morven Lewis-Everley wrote:
>> Cool, this looks pretty interesting. Have you ever had any problems with
>> heat levels with this distro? Another problem I am having with Ubuntu is
>> that the laptop seems to run at a noticeably higher temperature than 
>> under
>> Windows.
>>
>> Thanks for the recommendation.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Si <si2033 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Mo,
>> >
>> > I've used sidux ( http://sidux.com/ ) on an IBM T41 successfully for 
>> > some
>> > time
>> > now and a friend has just installed it on a new Dell XPS 1530.
>> >
>> > Like Ubuntu, sidux is based on Debian Sid, but uses the Sid 
>> > repositories
>> > directly. A strong team and community ensure that any glitches that 
>> > might
>> > occur from using Sid are quickly remedied. (There is a useful script
>> > available that most of us use to do system upgrades and avoid known
>> > problems).
>> >
>> > Being pure Debian, however, means that non-free multi-media packages 
>> > are
>> > not
>> > included with the Distro but can be added after installation.
>> >
>> > I thoroughly recommend it.
>> >
>> > Sue.
>> >
>> > On Wednesday 09 Jul 2008, Morven Lewis-Everley wrote:
>> > > Hi All,
>> > >
>> > > Haven't really posted here before, but I was wondering if anyone had
>> > > any good experiences with different distro's on Dell laptops?
>> > >
>> > > Mine is a Dell Latitude D620, currently running Ubuntu 8.04/XP on 
>> > > dual
>> > > boot. This is great, except that Ubuntu 8.04 seems to Kernal panic
>> >
>> > whenever
>> >
>> > > it runs on battery power... I have no idea why, but according to 
>> > > there
>> > > forums, it seems to be happening to more than a few people.
>> > >
>> > > At this point I am either going to go back to Ubuntu 7.1 or try
>> > > something else, but I am not really sure what to go for. Does anyone
>> > > have any suggestions? Are there any distro's specially for laptops (I
>> > > have looked, but can't really find anything)?
>> > >
>> > > Mo
>> >
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