[Cialug] Happy Hardy Herron (beta) Day

David Champion dchampion at visionary.com
Fri Mar 21 17:17:28 CDT 2008


I've had very good luck with Mandriva on laptops. I specifially bought 
my current one with the Intel wifi chipset because I knew it would work 
with Linux.

I have tried Kubuntu, and it worked fairly well, but I stuck with 
Mandriva because I'm more comfortable with it.

-dc

Chris K. wrote:
> Honestly, I've been staying away from the heathen debian distros.  
> Ubuntu anyway.  :P
>
> At least until I see that the desktop distros can go on a laptop with 
> no fuss, no muss.
> The last distro I tried, fedora core5 I think, still had a bunch of 
> hoops for getting wireless running.
>
> Anyone know if the more recent distros like Unbuntu, Fedora, etc "just 
> work" for the most part?
> All of my laptops are fairly recent with the Atheros (I think) 
> wireless chipsets.
>
> David Champion wrote:
>> I saw that the Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" beta is out today. Have any 
>> of you tried it yet? I'm guessing there's at least one or two of you 
>> on this list that have.
>>
>> Looks like they've added quite a few new features. Interesting that 
>> they're using FireFox 3 beta as the default browser. I've used it a 
>> little and didn't have any problems yet... I guess a beta release 
>> using a beta browser isn't such a big deal. :)
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyHeron/Beta
>>
>> -dc
>>
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