[Cialug] Linux on Laptop

frankie frankie at raccoon.com
Thu Sep 15 20:55:06 CDT 2005


Wow, thanks for all the replies! A friend gave me a disc of Vector  
Linux 5.1 and it looks like a keeper. Small footprint, installed  
easy, nice WMs, and runs fast and stable. Second choice was Gentoo,  
Mandrake 2005 and Fedora Core 4 were tied for third.


On Sep 14, 2005, at 11:35 PM, 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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