On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:55, Clifton Royston wrote: > So I bought a Dell 6000 at the end of December as my last minute > end-of-fiscal-year create-taxable-expenses item, since I really needed > a laptop, and now I'm looking to partition it and put a Linux distro on > half. (I bought it with an 80GB drive to make sure I'd have room for > two OSes.) > > Are there any concrete differences which would make some distros > objectively better to use for laptop, any variability with regard to > ease of repartitioning, hardware support, APM, wireless support, etc.? > Or should I just pick any one that sounds good? > > Ubuntu seems to be getting a lot of mindshare, but of course so does > Fedora, so does SUSE... I wouldn't object to buying a well-done > reasonably-priced distro, if it's concretely better than the > competition. > > -- Clifton
I have a Dell 700m and dual boot with SUSE 9.3. Most things worked out of the box... especially 802.11g. Video needed a patch for the wide screen size. I didn't try the sd card reader yet. Sometimes I use my dell to watch recordings from my Myth box (FC1 Myth 0.16. Hey if it ain't broke...) Mike
