It is that triennial event here - I will get a new business laptop, and also an option of buying the old one at a much reduced price (this time the new one is going to be a T42, with fingerprint reader and whatnot - sweet! :). So I have decided to get back to desktop Linux. The last time I had one was way back in 2001 - Redhat 7.1, I think.
So I know that a lot of water has flown under the bridge. Kernel is now at 2.6.x, KDE is 3.5, GCC 3.x, etc. etc. At the moment, I am considering two options for the distro: 1. OpenSUSE 10 - I have the ISOs downloaded and burnt. I can start installation today. 2. Fedora Core 5 - wait for it. :) So I have these questions. 1. I'd want to retain the dual-boot option for the time being. Do I still have to fiddle around with fips.exe or do modern installers handle it on their own? The full disk at the moment is on NTFS with Windows XP SP2 Pro as the OS. 2. Hardware compatibility - Wifi and Infrared, mainly. Wifi it seems is fully supported, but I haven't seen much discussion about IR. 3. Suspend and hibernate? 4. My camera - Canon IXUS 500. 5. Other assorted USB stuff I have accumulated over time - a Belkin USB hub, an IBM and a Logitec USB 2-button mouses (mice?) with scroll wheels, my iPAQ PDA, my Sandisk USB thumb drive etc. 6. My Nokia 6820 mobile phone, via IR (Gnokii?). 7. Does the Thinkpad keyboard work fully? There are several Fn+key options on the keyboard, plus an extra pair of Forward/Backward keys on either side of the up-arrow key. I don't think I'll have a problem with Internet access - my 3Com ADSL/Wifi router is mostly plug and play with all the providers I have tried it so far. The laptop is a Thinkpad T41 with 1GB RAM. I did look at linux-laptop.net but almost all the reviews there are for Linux-only boots. I tried a couple of live CDs (Knoppix and Kubuntu), and I am of the opinion that KDE does look good on this laptop. Binand ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
