[HLUG] Which distro for a laptop?

[Matt Jones]

I used PClinuxos before I switvhed to Ubuntu. It seemed quite polished, but
this was some time ago.  What about fedora? Up to date and a large community
behind it.

I will probably get the 901 when I can get hold of one, although the one
that Dell are planning seems to be nice, from what snippets of info I have
found.
Mj
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:30 PM, <info at lifespacedesign.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Morven,
>
> I'm running a legacy DEll Latitude cpi (600 MHz) using PCLinuxOS. As a
> stripped down Mandriva it uses KDE by default, which suits me, has never had
> any issues finding and using any of the peripherals I USB into it and also
> you can download any additional SW as rpms.
> Live CDs are available ((I think it was Paul S who gave me mine) or you can
> download an ISO.) the same CD will also install.
>
> Of course, you may have specific tasks to run which would influence your
> choice of distro....
>
> Hope you can make the mtg next week
> Pete H@
>
> 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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