[HLUG] Which distro for a laptop?

[Matt Jones]

The EEE is very nice, but PC world are overcharging for it. You can pick up
the 4G version, with webcam, 4Gb Drive and a bigger battery for around the
same price online.

I am very happy with mine, I have had it since November last year and I find
it incredibly useful.

Mj

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:27 PM, dicegeorge at hotmail dot com <
dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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