[HLUG] Which distro for a laptop?

[David Shorthouse]

I use ubuntu on a p3 1ghz Dell Latitude C610  it works fine It also runs 
opensuse 10.3 without any issues. 

Have you tried just a vanilla kernel?


Dave

On Wednesday 09 July 2008 14:22:08 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