jonathon wrote:
Also any suggestions for Linux distros I can test with a "Live CD" to see which
one works the best for my HP Pavilion zv6123 AMD64 Athlon laptop?
Download and burn the live ISO images for the first hundred listings
at http://distrowatch.com/
Use the first fifty purely to establish a baseline. A means of
evaluating the performance on various parameters that are of
importance to you. None of these distros will be your "final cut".
The first distro whose performance exceeds the best in that first 50,
is the distro that will, statistically speaking, work best for you.
(If you want to argue that 25, or 33 is equally suitable, then use
that, but be fully cognizant of the issues involved in creating a
base line, using a lower number of samples.)
Thanks.
I have been burning the Live CDs and running/installing them
to test if they work with all the onboard devices. Takes time, and
a few CDs, but worth the work and waiting to get the one that works
the "Best" with the laptop. Then I will decide which one works the
more user friendly. I am using Gnome mostly, but in the 90's used
KDE mostly. Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSe (open to out then) were the
ones on the servers/desktops used by the college and the later by the
a company's computer center, including Unix on the "big machines".
But that was a life-time ago for me.
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