Mat Branyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I happily run Gentoo on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 8200).
I've also run Debian on a couple of different boxes. With Debian on a compaq evo a year or so back I had to do some extra work to get X going but otherwise it was straightforward. It really depends on the hardware you are getting. > I am getting a laptop really soon (Wednesday hopefully) and have been > trying to figure out which distribution of linux I should put on it. > > Are there any distributions out there that are optimized for a laptop? > I run Gentoo on my desktop, but am not sure It would be a great idea to > run it on the laptop too. I would like something that is quite stable, > as I spend enough time tweaking gentoo on my desktop, but would also > like it to have a good package management system. > This is the first laptop I have ever gotten. > > What is everyone else's experience with linux on the laptop? What > should I expect/look out for? > > thanks in advance > -- > Mat Branyon > http://www.louisiana.edu/~mwb7791 > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...and one script to rule them all." gpg key fingerprint=7125 0BD3 8EC4 08D7 321D CEE9 F024 7DA6 0BC7 94E5
