[HLUG] Which distro for a laptop?

[Morven Lewis-Everley]

Interesting, there doesn't seem to be an end to Ubuntu's website.

I was hoping a newer kernal version would have fixed the issue (I am pretty
sure that there is a bug reported on Ubuntu's bugzilla), but every kernal
update has been the same.

I could try just re-installing, but I have used Ubuntu for a while now, and
kind of fancied a change. The trouble is the Linux community seems to suffer
from Multiple Personality Disorder :).



On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Julian Robbins <joolsr at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
> Hi Morven
>
> If you have a kernel panic, you may find that its more likely a problem
> with that specific version of the kernel rather than Ubuntu itself. ie with
> same kernel in suse, Fedora you will getb the same problem. Kernel changes
> do occasionally lead to regressions, ie bugs that have been fixed, but come
> back again.
>
> Ubuntu themselves have a section in their wiki about tests they
> have made with different laptops, dell are quite prominent in it. ie
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/DellLatitudeD620 in fact
> canonical supply many laptops to their Ubuntu staff for testing.
>
> There is a contact at Ubuntu that you may want to ask about your problem ,
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OsdeInfo
>
>> 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)?
>>
>>
> I dont think there are any distros just for laptops, but you're right in
> either going back a version or forward one. I'd try something quite
> different, not debian derived, and you may find that it might work.
>
>
>  Mo
>>
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