My fairly new Dell Inspiron 8500 is quite happy with 9.1. I imagine 9.2 would work equally as well.
LeRoy > In anticipation of the "early bird pre-order" MDK 9.2 package arrival, I > am also looking into indulging myself with a new laptop (the one I have > right now is running 9.1, but it is at a stage where it can hardly > manage all the stuff I want) ... so, the obvious formal step I thought > of taking (instead of the twisted roads of > http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ and the likes) was to go directly to > THE VENDOR site, and look for hardware support. Surprise?!? > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/hardware.php3 does not have one single > item listed as having been tested ("green"), let alone "certified" > ("star"). Are these guys serious about it? You want to be in the OS > selling business, and you do not have one single mobile device > guaranteed to run this?!? All the laptops listed "have been reported" > as working. I know I won't expect more if I were to download and build > myself the Linux kernel ... but an official distribution?!? > > Anyway - besides the above - that may end up as just one of those > unanswerable questions_rants ;) - does anybody on this list have a > positive experience with 9.2 on a very recent / higher end model of > laptop (and which one, of course)? I am not interested in a "desktop" > (i.e. office apps) utilization type, but rather networking and security > tools usage (tcpdump, snort, ntop, sniffers of all sorts ([t]ethereal), > nmap, iptraf, bing, fping, hping, etherape, tcpflow, kismet, swatch, > nessus, nagios, and on, and on ...), with support for VMWare, of course > - if that helps narrowing down the options (i.e. translated in good > integrated NIC, good Wi-Fi integrated one, etc.), > > TIA, > Stef
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