[NBLUG/talk] Laptop Distro

[Steve Johnson]

Hmm, I was just thinking, what about the knoppix HD installer?  Has
anyone installed this on a laptop?  I know right from the knoppix CD,
everything 'just works'.. Seem's that would be the easiest thing to
try..

What about updates on knoppix, since its debian based, is it as simple
as 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade'?

-Steve
 


On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:53:29 -0800, Steve Johnson <gnuguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mostly problems with shutting down, the power management isn't quite
> working with it..  I've also seen some non-laptop issues that worry
> me, mainly issues with SATA drives.
> 
> I'm running C3 on my workstation at work, and am having zero problems
> with it, its actually pretty nice, and I see a performance improvement
> over teh C1 I had on here before.
> 
> I think my biggest complaint about Fedora is that it does not support
> MP3 natively, you need to download another package from freshrpms in
> order to get MP3 support..  Now I do understand why the fedora group
> chose to disable MP3 support.. but its a drag..
> 
> A friend of mine is trying to talk me into trying Suse.  I may give
> that a try.  Maybe I'll just do a Debian install =)  I know Debian the
> best of all the distros I've used.  But last time I did debian on a
> latop, getting wireless to work properly took a bit of work and time..
> 
> -Steve
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:39:04 -0800, Mark Street <mark at oswizards.com> wrote:
> > Whine Whine Whine, Dream, Dream, Dream, talk to Linksys and Broadcom about
> > driver hassles.  I have a 5100, run FC1 on it.  Maybe I will go to FC3 and
> > bleed a little.
> >
> > What types of 'problems' did FC3 cause on laptops specificially?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday 17 November 2004 11:15, Steve Johnson wrote:
> > > I was wondering what your opinions on laptop distros of linux were.  I
> > > have a Dell 5100 Laptop and I want to put linux on it (again).  Before
> > > I had FC2 on it, and it seemed to work fairly well.  So I was going to
> > > install FC3 on it, then I read on the fedoraforum.org site, that C3 is
> > > having problems on laptops.
> > >
> > > Basicly, I'm looking for a distro that right from the install will
> > > support the Broadcom nic, the Linksys Wireless card, and the winmodem.
> > >  With out much config hassels.
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