[plug] Best distro for laptops?

[shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au]

Debian. (Ah I probly sound like a stuck record in this-un tho!)

I recently upgraded some laptops from the 'legacy' XP installed on 
them (I love refering to XP as a legacy OS!), using the Knoppix 
hdx-install method, and as usual, it just sorta... worked!

And as always the winmodem stuff didn't . Que cera.

So yeah. Knoppix as install vector, particularly since it focuses
on desktopy stuff. I will add that attention needs to be paid
to network, as the oddball setup method for networks on Knop
made it ... interesting... That said, on network jumpin' machine
(Ie 192.168.ra home --> 10.0.ra work) its a pretty quick change
over method.

And god will smile down on all of this.

Cheers,
Shayne/

Quoting Davyd 'proXy' Madeley <proxy at zdlcomputing.com>:

> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 10:38, Ian H. Hogben wrote:
> > Hello, list:
> > 
> > I am wondering if anyone out there has an opinion on the best
> distribution of linux for a laptop. A few of the considerations that I
> am interested in:
> 
> This is a good question. I have been wondering this personally.
> The commercial distros seem to have more support out of the box, but
> as
> usual debian offers more power.
> 
> > *)	Encrypted, journalling filesystem support
> 
> Does this exist? If so, that's cool, I was looking at implementing
> something like this using libferris.
> 
> > *)	Excellent power management support (speedstep configuration? are
> there degrees of support for this or is it standard across the board?)
> 
> All of these suck out of the box as far as I know.
> You have to hack around in order to make them work.
> 
> > *)	Excellent USB support (cameras, storage, keyboard etc.)
> 
> No comment.
> 
> > *)	Good package management out-of-the-box (apt, gurpmi, yast etc).
> 
> apt is by far the best packaging system.
> 
> > And while I'm at it, what do you all think of 802.11b cards? I am
> looking for one that has a built-in pig tail connector and works with
> most wardriving apps (oh; and is cheap :-). I had a Cisco card once and
> I found that many apps didn't support it...
> 
> You can by a RoamAbout orinoco card for about $70 if you know where to
> look. They work perfectly out of the box. Plus with some driver
> hacking,
> (the patches should be easy to apply) they w*ch*k easily.
> 
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