Re: better distro for laptops ??
I just installed Fedora Core really seamlessly on a
Toshiba M45 laptop. I had some problems with Debian
sarge on the same laptop. I also had no problems with
Mandrake 10 on the same laptop. Ofcourse you can get
yum to upgrade all your packages on Fedora Core.
Vinay
--- dbarker@turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca wrote:
> Thus spake brian morris (cymraegish@yahoo.com):
> ...
> > p.s. now thinking about reorganizing my
> > newer laptop to take linux - unsatisfied with
> > mac os X. not sure best way tho, probably
> > i will stick with debian. gentoo would work
> > tho as well as kubuntu or mandriva. (the
> > latter two i believe both Debian forks).
>
> ubuntu is a debian fork using gnome and kubuntu is
> the kde version -
> they share repositories.
>
> AFAIK Mandriva is the renamed Mandrake, which
> certainly used to be a
> Red Hat fork and (makes arms into cross) rpm-based.
>
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