On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 02:37:40PM -0400, Dave Sorenson wrote: > I understand and acknowledge this is throwing gasoline on a forest fire, but > I feel <EVIL GRIN> mischievous </EVIL GRIN> today. I'm finally ready to dual > boot my new Compaq laptop, gotta keep XP so I'm looking for good dual boot > behavior. (I know XP is the bratty kid in my dual boot classroom, but I need > a distro that will coexist as well as it can). Good hardware support is > tops, Knoppix finds all the hardware except the Broadcom wireless, I'll use > NDIS wrapper for that. > > My question given the power/special hibernate/ handle M$XP shenanigans, what > is the best distro to load on a modern laptop?
I won't join in the war, but I will state that I have happily used both MDK 9.x and now SuSE 9.0 on my Compaq 2525US. MDK found most, SuSE found all of the hardware, and while I haven't used it to put the machine to sleep, it accurately reports battery status etc. Wireless, sound, etc all work splendidly, as does the CD burner. SWS -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
