[tlinux-users:07647] Re: An OS for my laptop

How about... Suse 10? I use suse on my toshiba, and I am sure you can work  
through your hardware problems just as easy on suse... The reasoon why I  
stick with suse is the powersaved package, I get lots of battery time, and  
it is the distro that requires least amount of fiddling to get going.

If you must try something else, go for ubuntu. But the thing I like about  
suse (this goes partially for ubuntu to) is that it gives you the  
sensation that a lot of people have allready done the tweaking and  
fiddling to get hardware recognized and working, for you. You do not have  
to do all the dirtywork yourself.

Stick with suse, but if you want to look at alternatives, ubuntu is my  
second favourite (kubuntu that is) and the latest mandriva also works very  
well.

Then again, you might not want to use your laptop for any real work, or  
anything else than tweaking and constant striving to get hardware and  
software optimised. If so then go for debian, gentoo or slack.

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:36:56 +0100, John T <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I have a Toshiba L10-202 laptop with a Celeron M processor, 256 DDRAM  
> and a 40 GB HDD(no wireless card). This laptop comes with Microsoft  
> Windows XP HE SP2 installed. Although this system has a great support  
> for my hardware because of all the Toshiba drivers, I don't like its  
> instability and the fact that when it completes loading (with Norton  
> Internet Security) it uses more that 200 MB of RAM. I am using Slackware  
> Linux for a few years (which is installed on my home computer) so I am  
> used to use tools like gcc, make, java, OpenOffice ... I need a  
> replacement for windows on my laptop. My laptop has a Phoenix BIOS and a  
> buggy DSDT so I have no info about the ac adapter or battery but I can  
> see the orange led blinking when the battery level is too low. Until now  
> I tried SUSE 10 and it worked great(only some problems with the modem).  
> I also tried a live Ubuntu cd. It is nice but I only have a 56k modem  
> connection so I can't download big programs from the Internet(I like  
> SUSE b!
> ecause I
>  can find all the software I need on its 5 Cd's). I also considered on  
> FreeBSD (Someone told me that FreeBSD has the Smart Battery system  
> included in the kernel!?) but I am afraid of hardware compatibility  
> problems. I saw good reviews for Solaris 10 but this is a system build  
> for servers, not laptops.
>  I want to choose an operating system to use for several years(that's  
> because I don't think I will make hardware upgrades to this laptop). I  
> need it for editing text, programming in C/C++ Java and PHP, surfing on  
> the Internet...
>  What operating system do you recommend me to use on my laptop that  
> would have good compatibility with my hardware, stability and enough  
> additional software.
>  Thanks!
>
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