[Cialug] Linux on Laptop

Stuart Thiessen sthiessen at passitonservices.org
Thu Sep 15 10:51:08 CDT 2005


What do you consider the differences between Gentoo and SUSE?  I have 
only tried SUSE, RedHat (back in the 6.x days) and FreeBSD before.

Thanks,

Stuart

On Sep 15, 2005, at 10:43, Aaron Jensen wrote:

> As we speak I am loading Gentoo linux onto my laptop.  I have used 
> this as a server, desktop, and laptop OS many times before and 
> wouldn't use any other distro for a desktop/laptop at least.
>
> On 9/15/05, Dave J. Hala Jr. <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote: I'm in the 
> process of putting Centos 3.5 on a laptop as we speak (as I
>> type)...
>>
>>
>>  On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 23:35, James Shoemaker wrote:
>> > frankie wrote:
>> > > Hello all,
>> > >
>> > >     Just got hold of a IBM Thinkpad 390X and am deciding what to 
>> put on
>> > > it. I have to put Win2K on it for work and school, but II have 
>> the back
>> > > half of a 20 Gb drive to install Linux on. Looks like parts are 
>> pretty
>> > > common, nothing exotic. Any suggestions on which distro is going 
>> to work
>> > > best? Thanks!
>> >
>> >       Use whatever distro you like, most work fine with 
>> laptops.  My HP has
>> > Debian on it and it works fine.
>> >
>> > James
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