[Cialug] Linux on Laptop

Dave J. Hala Jr. dave at 58ghz.net
Thu Sep 15 21:42:26 CDT 2005


Wow, I guess us redhat enterprise folks are really fringe/outcasts...

(Could use centos if you need a low cost/no cost solution..)

:) Dave

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 20:55, frankie wrote:
> Wow, thanks for all the replies! A friend gave me a disc of Vector  
> Linux 5.1 and it looks like a keeper. Small footprint, installed  
> easy, nice WMs, and runs fast and stable. Second choice was Gentoo,  
> Mandrake 2005 and Fedora Core 4 were tied for third.
> 
> 
> On Sep 14, 2005, at 11:35 PM, 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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