[Cialug] Linux version

Chris Hilton chris129 at cs.iastate.edu
Wed Apr 5 17:45:17 CDT 2006


Anything knoppix based should be great on a laptop.

On Tuesday 04 April 2006 17:13, Rob Miller wrote:
> Don't overlook Linspire / Lindows.  I ran a copy of it for more than a year
> on a Sony Vaio laptop and it served me well.  I wonder if there are other
> versions of Linux specifically for the laptop?
>
> On 4/4/06, Keith Carpenter <wd0fia at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >  I have been running Knoppix Linux from cd for some time now.  I have two
> > machines I want to reformat and run Linux on.
> >
> > The first machine is a Toshiba Laptop, a Sattellite 1735.  It has a 60
> > gig hard drive, 700mhz cpu, 256meg of ram.
> >
> > The second machine is a home built AMD Athlon, 120 gig hard drive,
> > 2200mhz cpu, 512meg of ram.
> >
> > I have several versions of Linux available, and would like what version
> > would be best.  I believe Fedora is the current release?  Knoppix has
> > ran fine from the cd, but I have been told by several ham friends to run
> > Red Hat instead.  Any comments/ suggestions would be appreciated!
> >
> > Keith
> >
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