ROTFLOL!!!! Thanks I just got out of a heavy meeting and needed that!!
Dave S. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith, Brett Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 4:00 PM To: 'Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list' Subject: RE: [TriLUG] 1.2.3.4. I declare a distro war... > -----Original Message----- > From: William Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 2:45 PM > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] 1.2.3.4. I declare a distro war... > > > 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? > FLAME ON Real Men use Gentoo.... FLAME OFF > > 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 This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipients(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information of Bloodhound Software, Inc.. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. -- 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 -- 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
