Re: laptop

I've bought a compaq nx5000 from HP and it came with SuSe pre-installed!

Everything works fine on suse including wireless LAN, if you install it
from the distribution CD with which it was shipped. The problem I had was
that I installed Fedora, and then I lost wireless LAN and battery
indicators, and maybe a bunch of other things I don't know. But after I
reinstalled suse from the original CD it was all back. The only think I
still don't like is that the original installation CD puts everything
(that is, /, /home, /opt, ....) under a single root partition taking up
the whole harddrive, and I don't know how I can change that, because the
installation process does not have that manual partitioning tool which
RedHat has. So, I just keep it as one big partition.

It was first time I used suse, and I was positively impressed. I actually
like it more than Fedora/Redhat in user-friendliness. However, a single
installation CD does not have all the packages I needed, so I had to go to
ftp.suse.com and install a bunch of extra rpm-packages, which don't come
on the installation CD. Of course you'll have to know what you want, or
you may guess it by package names. They have a huge collection on
ftp.suse.com arranged by distributions, and every package installs right
from the browser by clicking at the rpm-file (you should run Konquerror
for that, which comes as a default). You can also use lftp ftp.suse.com 
for downloads and use rpm -ivh package-name.rpm

If you don't buy it with SuSe pre-installed, I still think you'll be able
to install all the hardware specific drivers, but you'll have to look for
them somewhere. I should have those on my installation CD, but I never
bothered to check, and I don't know the installation procedure for 
those drivers.

Hope this helps.

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, [email protected] wrote:

> 
> I am getting a  new laptop from best buy.  the deal they have is $1200 for a amd 2.0ghz 64bit cpu 60gig hd, 512 memory (in one stick to easily upgrade to 2x512), 15in. screen, dvd +/- rw cd-rw and an extra battery.  origionaly it was going to be a hp but they ran out and now it is a compaq.  how good is linux on compaq and how good is compaq in general?
> 
> thanks Pete
> 
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Dr. Andrei Smirnov,  West Virginia University
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