[Cialug] Happy Hardy Herron (beta) Day

[Jerry Heiselman]

I've got an older Inspiron 8200 with a Orinoco chipset pcmcia card and
Ubuntu 7.10 work with straight "out-of-the-box". The only thing I had
to muck with was getting the nvidia drivers to load properly, but
that's because of the screen they put in some of the 8200s.

Jerry



On 3/21/08, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com> wrote:
> I've had very good luck with Mandriva on laptops. I specifially bought
> my current one with the Intel wifi chipset because I knew it would work
> with Linux.
>
> I have tried Kubuntu, and it worked fairly well, but I stuck with
> Mandriva because I'm more comfortable with it.
>
> -dc
>
> Chris K. wrote:
> > Honestly, I've been staying away from the heathen debian distros.
> > Ubuntu anyway.  :P
> >
> > At least until I see that the desktop distros can go on a laptop with
> > no fuss, no muss.
> > The last distro I tried, fedora core5 I think, still had a bunch of
> > hoops for getting wireless running.
> >
> > Anyone know if the more recent distros like Unbuntu, Fedora, etc "just
> > work" for the most part?
> > All of my laptops are fairly recent with the Atheros (I think)
> > wireless chipsets.
> >
> > David Champion wrote:
> >> I saw that the Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" beta is out today. Have any
> >> of you tried it yet? I'm guessing there's at least one or two of you
> >> on this list that have.
> >>
> >> Looks like they've added quite a few new features. Interesting that
> >> they're using FireFox 3 beta as the default browser. I've used it a
> >> little and didn't have any problems yet... I guess a beta release
> >> using a beta browser isn't such a big deal. :)
> >>
> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyHeron/Beta
> >>
> >> -dc
> >>
> >>
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-- 
Jerry