[Cialug] Linux on Laptop

[Aaron Jensen]

Also, I came across an interesting link a few days ago for a Linux 
Distribution Chooser. You take a short "quiz" of sorts to determine which 
linux distros best match you and your situation. The LDC can be found here: 
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php

Might give that a shot. :)

On 9/15/05, David Champion <dave at visionary.com> wrote:
> 
> Gentoo is a very "hands on" distro, I would only recommend it for
> hardcore hacker types. Slackware is also like this.
> 
> Any of the RedHat (Fedora, Whitebox, CentOS...) / SUSE / Mandriva
> distro's are very easy to install & use.
> 
> Debian & Ubuntu are slightly less user friendly - mostly just in the
> installer - but are also easy to use.
> 
> Here's some resources for you to check out...
> 
> http://www.cialug.org/ewiki/?id=Distributions+by+Target
> 
> http://distrowatch.com/
> 
> -dc
> 
> Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> > What do you consider the differences between Gentoo and SUSE? I have
> > only tried SUSE, RedHat (back in the 6.x days) and FreeBSD before.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Stuart
> >
> > On Sep 15, 2005, at 10:43, Aaron Jensen wrote:
> >
> >> As we speak I am loading Gentoo linux onto my laptop. I have used
> >> this as a server, desktop, and laptop OS many times before and
> >> wouldn't use any other distro for a desktop/laptop at least.
> >>
> >> On 9/15/05, Dave J. Hala Jr. <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote: I'm in the
> >> process of putting Centos 3.5 on a laptop as we speak (as I
> >>
> >>> type)...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 23:35, James Shoemaker wrote:
> >>> > frankie wrote:
> >>> > > Hello all,
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Just got hold of a IBM Thinkpad 390X and am deciding what to
> >>> put on
> >>> > > it. I have to put Win2K on it for work and school, but II have
> >>> the back
> >>> > > half of a 20 Gb drive to install Linux on. Looks like parts are
> >>> pretty
> >>> > > common, nothing exotic. Any suggestions on which distro is going
> >>> to work
> >>> > > best? Thanks!
> >>> >
> >>> > Use whatever distro you like, most work fine with
> >>> laptops. My HP has
> >>> > Debian on it and it works fine.
> >>> >
> >>> > James
> 
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