Re: distros and laptops
I just rushed an install of Mepis 7 Rc1 .. with a synaptic UG immediately .. flawless 15-20mins.. on a Dell 2200 all touchpad facility wireless etc .. for painless install mepis is very good. 2c .. Paul Chris wrote: I have had good success with Ubuntu Gutsy on Hp, Toshiba And Asus Laptops, and the Ubuntu forums indicate that the IBM laptops (or there Chinese equivalents) work work too. You need to install gsynatptics to get the touchpad functionality On my own HP (coreduo 2gig ram) works like a dream except for suspend cheers Chris T On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 21:52 +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: [not to start any 'distro-wars' but] Can anyone recommend any particular distro as being particularly laptop-friendly? Ie, plug-n-play installation on most laptops, etc? Wesley Parish __ NOD32 2730 (20071218) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
Re: distros and laptops
for painless install mepis is very good. Apply all updates and you will be very close to Final.
distros and laptops
[not to start any 'distro-wars' but] Can anyone recommend any particular distro as being particularly laptop-friendly? Ie, plug-n-play installation on most laptops, etc? Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
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Most of the recent *buntus have done the job for me, and I had nothing but praise for PCLinuxOS when I tried it. Also if you're that way inclined Fedora 8 got a good write up in Linux Format. As an aside though, I'm having serious problems getting the soundcard in a lenovo T60 to work. It's the snd-hda-intel driver and everything seems to work fine (Module loads, alsa doesn't compain etc) but no sound comes out! I use Arch, but I've tried numerous other distros with no luck. Anyone come across similar problems? Ben On 18/12/2007, Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [not to start any 'distro-wars' but] Can anyone recommend any particular distro as being particularly laptop-friendly? Ie, plug-n-play installation on most laptops, etc? Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. -- Regards, Ben Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] +6281317958862
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 9:52:11 pm Wesley Parish wrote: [not to start any 'distro-wars' but] Can anyone recommend any particular distro as being particularly laptop-friendly? Ie, plug-n-play installation on most laptops, etc? Mepis 7 (RC2) is fantastic for hardware detection on most models. Debian based and very stable. Let me know if you need an iso. (RC2 will become final simply by keeping up with updates - no need for upgrade when final is released) Rob
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Do you hear the voice if you boot Knoppix? On Dec 18, 2007 10:48 PM, Ben Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of the recent *buntus have done the job for me, and I had nothing but praise for PCLinuxOS when I tried it. Also if you're that way inclined Fedora 8 got a good write up in Linux Format. As an aside though, I'm having serious problems getting the soundcard in a lenovo T60 to work. It's the snd-hda-intel driver and everything seems to work fine (Module loads, alsa doesn't compain etc) but no sound comes out! I use Arch, but I've tried numerous other distros with no luck. Anyone come across similar problems? Ben On 18/12/2007, Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [not to start any 'distro-wars' but] Can anyone recommend any particular distro as being particularly laptop-friendly? Ie, plug-n-play installation on most laptops, etc? Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. -- Regards, Ben Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] +6281317958862 -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
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On Dec 18, 2007 9:52 PM, Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[not to start any 'distro-wars' but] Can anyone recommend any particular
distro as being particularly laptop-friendly? Ie, plug-n-play installation
on most laptops, etc?
PC-BSD, PCLinuxOS, Sabayon ( Professional ) In that order.
I have disks for the first two.
I was seriously thinking of going over to PC-BSD myself, because it
installs faultlessly on my ThinkPad lappie. Even the Fn keys worked! I
then discovered, much to to my disappointment and annoyance that
FreeBSD does not support a native version of Flash. There are kludgy
workarounds, But I didn't fancy them.
So if you are happy to be without the latest flash player, I'd
recommend PC-BSD, basically because the BSD doco leaves the Linux
pseudo-prose for dead.
PCLinuxOS is a Mand{rake,riva} fork and they seem to have got a huge
number of wrinkles ironed out.
Sabayon is a tarted up fork of Gentoo. I'd suggest the Pro version
because the d/l is half the size and the uses the stable version of
the packages. It's ~2Gbytes.
I haven't got a DVD for the Pro version but I have the others. Getting
the Fn keys to work properly might need a bit of 'guru meditation',
and scripting.
--
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell
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Hi
Strangely enough PC-BSD gives you the option of using IE6 (there is a
package that installs IE6 running under WINE). There are a number of
options to get flash working. The main issue I have is that I have not
managed to get a single browser working on PC-BSD with both Flash 9 and
the Java run time engine.
Also PC-BSD is 32 bit and I have decided that I like a 64 bit OS.
Regards
Graeme Kiyoto-Ward
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Dec 18, 2007 9:52 PM, Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[not to start any 'distro-wars' but] Can anyone recommend any particular
distro as being particularly laptop-friendly? Ie, plug-n-play installation
on most laptops, etc?
PC-BSD, PCLinuxOS, Sabayon ( Professional ) In that order.
I have disks for the first two.
I was seriously thinking of going over to PC-BSD myself, because it
installs faultlessly on my ThinkPad lappie. Even the Fn keys worked! I
then discovered, much to to my disappointment and annoyance that
FreeBSD does not support a native version of Flash. There are kludgy
workarounds, But I didn't fancy them.
So if you are happy to be without the latest flash player, I'd
recommend PC-BSD, basically because the BSD doco leaves the Linux
pseudo-prose for dead.
PCLinuxOS is a Mand{rake,riva} fork and they seem to have got a huge
number of wrinkles ironed out.
Sabayon is a tarted up fork of Gentoo. I'd suggest the Pro version
because the d/l is half the size and the uses the stable version of
the packages. It's ~2Gbytes.
I haven't got a DVD for the Pro version but I have the others. Getting
the Fn keys to work properly might need a bit of 'guru meditation',
and scripting.
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ROFL... Sorry, I just read that and nearly spit my morning coffee at the monitor.. Is that a technical question, or a religious one? :-) And to keep things on topic I've had good results with ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 on recent dell and toshiba laptop hardware, although the internal pots modems were winmodems of some sort and didn't play ball... On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 22:58 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: Do you hear the voice if you boot Knoppix?
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:38:45 +1300 Chris Hellyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And to keep things on topic I've had good results with ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 on recent dell and toshiba laptop hardware, although the internal pots modems were winmodems of some sort and didn't play ball... My old tosh doesn't seem to play too well with the power management on 7.10. Once it's shut itself down, it seems to stay that way until you forcibly reboot it. Other than that, it's really great - the old nvidia drivers work well. Steve pgp3KMG2wSr9j.pgp Description: PGP signature
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On Tuesday 18 December 2007 22:48, Ben Ford wrote: As an aside though, I'm having serious problems getting the soundcard in a lenovo T60 to work. It's the snd-hda-intel driver and everything seems to work fine (Module loads, alsa doesn't compain etc) but no sound comes out! I use Arch, but I've tried numerous other distros with no luck. Anyone come across similar problems? Sound worked wonderfully on my Thinkpad for the longest time and then one day it just stopped. It all appeared to be working but no sound came out. What fixed it was reset to factory defaults in the bios. HTH, Wayne
Re: distros and laptops
I have had good success with Ubuntu Gutsy on Hp, Toshiba And Asus Laptops, and the Ubuntu forums indicate that the IBM laptops (or there Chinese equivalents) work work too. You need to install gsynatptics to get the touchpad functionality On my own HP (coreduo 2gig ram) works like a dream except for suspend cheers Chris T On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 21:52 +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: [not to start any 'distro-wars' but] Can anyone recommend any particular distro as being particularly laptop-friendly? Ie, plug-n-play installation on most laptops, etc? Wesley Parish
