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Re: Laptop and Distro Recommendations?



I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 running Debian 3.1 unstable. I had very little 
issues installing and everything works except for the modem wich I have no 
tried to get working. You can read more about my installation at 
http://greg.silosoft.org

On Friday 14 April 2006 10:21, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:08:04PM -0400, Muammar Wadih El Khatib Rodriguez 
wrote:
> >>> 2) Are there distros that are easier to get running on a laptop then
> >>> Debian?
> >>
> >> Ubuntu...
> >
> > I'm agree. Ubuntu is easy to get running on a laptop, but debian etch
> > is easy too. I have debian etch on my laptop and  it's incredible.
> > Debian etch has all new software.
>
> Not sure what the Ubuntu folks know that the Debian ones don't, but my
> recent experience has been that Ubuntu is better at installing that
> Etch....
>
> At least with my most recent attempt on a Fujitsu P7120, Ubuntu installed
> fairly easily except for a few post install hardware support issues,
> whereas the latest Etch/Testing (downloaded about two days ago) aborted the
> install because it failed to auto-detect the CD/DVD drive :-/
>
> Regards,
> DigbyT
> --
> Digby R. S. Tarvin                                         
> digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com

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