Yes, I'm very happy with gentoo on my laptop. Previously I had Red Hat 8 on it and it took a lot of work to get everything working. Then I switched to Gentoo and everything just worked. This was mainly that the gentoo-sources kernel that I used already had the latest acpi support patch included which Red Hat didn't. I always had problems with Red Hat installers on my laptop too, probably due to buggy pcmcia on the laptop. However, with the newer acpi patches the 1.4rc4 livecd worked perfectly. I can't speak for older gentoo releases but 1.4rc4 worked great on mine. So, in general I love gentoo on my laptop and wouldn't use anything else. The performance improvements, customizability of gentoo, and great gentoo community have sold me on Gentoo for good!
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 11:02, Johnny Andersson wrote: > I'm getting a laptop soon. Not the latest model, but reasonably useable > (aiming for somewhere around 800 MHz, 256 meg). > > I'm using Gentoo on my desktop machine and I like it. I wonder if any of you > have opinions on Gentoo on a laptop. I realize that the usual > set-aside-a-day-to-compile-kde rules apply, but other than that, is Gentoo a > wise choise for laptops? My theory is that as Gentoo is very customizable, > and as you _have_ to compile your own kernel, the odds that you're gonna get > your hardware working is good. > > Any comments? Or does anyone have good experiences with other distros on > laptops? > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
