[Wolves] linux laptop

[sparkes]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Steve Ruffles wrote:
> Hi All,
> I hope I'm not going over old ground, but I'd like your views on which
> distro works well on laptops.
> I have just bought a Dell Latitude C400 (off ebay), nice machine - light
> and fast.
It seems it is both of our lucky days ;-) I also have a C400 machine

> I need wireless pmcia card access to our router.
> Have found reviews relating to older verisons of redhat and suse that
> seem unable to give decent graphics resolution (due to absence at that
> time of decent driver for on board IBM graphic chip).

it's an intel 840 and is supported in xfree86 4.3  I use debian sid on
mine but any new distro should have the right drivers.

> Does anyone have experience of newer versions of linux distros that
> might just do the trick?
now for my cheeky little question.  Do you have the cdrom drive? and if so
can I borrow it for a couple of hours please because my dhcpd/tftpd
emergency boot thing has fallen down and this machine is about to die.  If
I could borrow your cdrom I would be able to reinstall this machine (minus
the bad sectors) and get away with a couple more months with this rubbish
ibm harddisk.


> Thanks,
> Steve Ruffles
>
cheers sparkes