Keep us informed of what you do and results, if you will. I've found it's the finer details that are the most headache and the best learning! It also helps the more experienced users problem solving when you start banging your haed against the wall.
I am seriously considering moving from Crap(X)P to Salck 9.1 on the Dell Inspiron 1100 that I inherited from my father's passing a couple on months ago. I'm moving slow on it though for a number of resaons.
Anyway, Good Luck and I'll post my results as I get them.
Woody
Jason wrote:
Thanks Bob.
VMware needs RAM more than it needs CPU power, I
thought.
You're definitely right, I guess I should have said resource intensive.
OTOH, if you want to abandon all semblance of a
normal life and devote
each of your remaining hours on this mortal plane to
Linux
maintenance, customization, and tweaking, go with
Gentoo. (-: That's
what I've done, and I don't regret it a bit.
Is gentoo that bad? I don't mind putting in a bit of work, but since it is a work laptop, I mostly want to get going with a fairly small amount of downtime.
But Gentoo does keep
you on the cutting
edge. I didn't have to go outside of Gentoo to get
APM, DVD ripping,
DVD playback (and lots of other video formats), 3D
acceleration,
and lots of other cool stuff (like a bunch of games
I never play (-: ).
Mostly will just need CD writing, wifi, USB, nothing too complicated.
I'm assuming you know your way around Linux enough
that you're not
intimidated by things like fdisk, editing
/etc/fstab, or building a
kernel. If that weren't the case, we'd be
discussing Mandrake and
Fedora.
Yeah, I usually rebuild the kernel as a first step. That way if I foobar anything, it's an easy rebuild w/o too much hoohah. Of course, my current laptop is a 2.2 kernel, so I am excited to get to 2.4, to say nothing about 2.6. Old school baby.
I was leaning toward debian and will probably give that a shot, tho I am interested in Gentoo. I may save this until I eventually by a new desktop for personal use.
Jason
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