[Cialug] Linux on Laptop

[David Champion]

Gentoo is a very "hands on" distro, I would only recommend it for 
hardcore hacker types. Slackware is also like this.

Any of the RedHat (Fedora, Whitebox, CentOS...) / SUSE / Mandriva 
distro's are very easy to install & use.

Debian & Ubuntu are slightly less user friendly - mostly just in the 
installer - but are also easy to use.

Here's some resources for you to check out...

http://www.cialug.org/ewiki/?id=Distributions+by+Target

http://distrowatch.com/

-dc

Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> 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