I have been told countless times that I should be using Slackware, I've
noticed that RedHat is the standard, and Debian is getting there, and I
like the sound of Turbo... so recently I played with a few distro's on
my laptop (Toshiba 2410XCDT, K6-2/450/64/3G)and have come back to what I
have been using, simply because it works... Here are my results:
SuSE 6.1: My first try: Installed & booted fine. Sax is great, as it
autodetected and configured X without any input. PCMCIA took an
additional RPM to install, and I never did get dhclient working
right. So...
RedHat 6.2: Installed. Booted. X would only do 640x480 without major
tweaking. Sorry, that doesn't cut it. I didn't even play with PCMCIA
services at that point. On to...
TurboLinux (not quite the latest... it was the CD I got at the Merrilug
meeting): Crap. Total crap. The README didn't even jive with the
software. The boot floppy images were a nightmare. I'm sure it would
have run well if I could get the install going. The CD wouldn't boot
like the docs said it would either... Next...
Slackware (latest from an ISO): installed. Booted. The package
selection (disk sets) was a total waste of time... it hasn't changed
much at all since 3.1 on my first laptop. And like my first laptop, I
couldn't even get X to run. I'm sure a minimal install would make a
sweet server, but this is a desktop and I like a gui so I can see lots
of xterm windows at once... Pass...
Linux4windows: It works as well as shareware... not stable, booting
sucks, runs slow. OK if you want to give Linux a try but don't
want to partition your drive. Next...
Mandrake (latest - Net install): Beautiful. XFree86 4.0 is nice. More
video card support and DrakeConf is nice. Got X to run in 800x600 on my
second try. My only reservations are that downloading encryption from
overseas is slow and they removed a couple KDE apps I
liked. (Specifically the System submenu and the FindApp program...)
I didn't get around to trying Debian or any others as I liked the
Mandrake installation. I'm still trying to put specs together for what
I think would be the perfect install process... more to come...
Any comments?
Brian
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