Not sure if this needs to be here or in the Linux forum, but here goes. I've been thinking about Linux'ing my laptop lately, and was wondering what you guys that have done it used. Did you stick with your regular desktop distro, or use something more tailored for mobility? Anyone have any recommendations? I've used (and have discs for already) slackware, gentoo, fedora, suse, debian, ubuntu, and free bsd. Anyone want to throw me a reccomendation? Mods, feel free to toss this wherever it needs to go.
any distro should be fine, but be wary of flakey hardware support. as far as i know, sony make the most linux-friendly laptops around. here's a nice resource: http://www.linux-laptop.net/
I put Ubuntu on mine... Works like a charm... even power saving stuff... Only thing that bugs me is the wireless, but that's my card, not the distro (or linux...)
I'm running Fedora Core 4 on mine, and it isn't working with my wireless. Furthermore, I can't get the drivers and utilities I want to install. I've downloaded the ISOs for the latest KUbuntu, hopefully that will work better.
i put ubuntu on my dell c610 runs fine, perfect actually not much tweakin necessary and all laptop functionailty works.
Thanks for the replies guys. I've got a Toshiba Satellite A55 here, and leaning towards either Ubuntu or Slackware.
I've been running ubuntu on my IBM thinkpad T42 for about a year now, and it runs great. I highly reccomend ubuntu for any desktop/laptop system, esp for newbs since it requires minimum configuration and great support by default. Aside from that, any IBM laptop is a dream to run linux on, it seems that they offer the best combination(s) of hardware for both performance and support under any OS, fortunately linux for sure
I use slackware on because i like it and its fairly light. My laptop is a old best 1150 (p2, 128ram, 4gb hdd) so i cant use a heavy distro. but if your system can handle heavy wm like gnome 'n sutch go for ubuntu, it's nice and i like the apt-get. A other option is gentoo, which i like (if you have not the skills to install gentoo perhaps VLOS (i use it on my desktop machine) )
I have an acer 3002 w/ the mobile AMD chip and put Gentoo on it... the wireless card is working, power saving, sound, you name it... the only thing I didn't try was the modem
Got ubuntu on my laptop dual booted with xp home, works a treat Didn't have to tweak anything worked straight off too
well.. once I get a laptop again, I'll try out ubuntu/kubuntu and maybe switch over to slackware. or just be lazy and go with slackware (as usual) I know Bruno_me would want me to use gentoo though.
I'm currently running ubuntu on my laptop (old Tosh Satelite), and it's been pretty good, although it does come with Gnome so that needs changing. I've also run Slackware (was9.1) and Fedora Core 3 (Vile distro) on it without problems. Col
Maby you can help me and send me the drives 4 that laptop ? i have one like that butt the only thing is that mine is with 64 mb ram, and i cant find the drives send me a mail asap best regards NO-1
I'm a complete noob to Linux, but I've found Kunbuntu (unbuntu, but with KDE instead of Gnome) to work like dream on my old laptop
I use Ubuntu (6.06) on my laptop, and XGL works, as well as my built-in card reader. The wireless actually works pretty good too, especially after installing network manager.
Well, I just installed Fedora Core 6 on my Dell 600m and it is working great. Processor throttling and wireless are working properly. I did need to DL the wireless firmware from SourceForge, but that was easy enough. So far seems like a great distribution... -BKuhl
