[KLUG Members] Distro Recommendations

[Peter Bart]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 08:52 -0500, Mark Bystry wrote:
> automatix or easyubuntu is about all the tweaking that i do...ha.
> 
> i would like to add to this. i think ubuntu is a very nice distro. it feels weird to say that since 
> i consider myself a "die-hard" suse user. i find myself installing and using ubuntu more than suse 
> lately because ubuntu feels faster. i still recommend suse (opensuse) for a server but i recommend 
> ubuntu for the desktop or laptop.
> 
> however, the new edgy eft (6.10) has some wireless problems. edgy no longer recognizes my netgear 
> atheros wifi card but dapper (6.0) picks it up perfectly. oddly, i have about 5-6 wifi cards, all 
> generic and every single one of those works on edgy. so if edgy doesn't work for you then try 
> dropping back to dapper. you can't tell the difference between the two anyway...most is under the 
> hood stuff.
> 
> mark
> 
> zdennis wrote the following on 11/20/2006 8:29 AM:
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> > Nikolas Reist wrote:
> >> You could try ubuntu.  Most thing work right out of the box and there is
> >> in-depth support.  Let me know if you decide and I will get you some
> >> ubuntu tweaks


	It's interesting to hear you say that about laptops. I have SUSE 10.0
on the twin IBM thinkpad to the one I'm going to be installing. I can't
say to much good about it's power management/suspend support. Of course
I have very limited experience so I'm a little reluctant to change to
something that might not be good for what I want it for. The thinkpad
I'm doing next is a twin to mine and both are bone stock except for
cd/dvd combo drive, mini pci adapter, and 1 gig ram. All upgrades came
straight from IBM and are the IBM approved/recommended upgrades. That's
the long way to say I have no plug in cards for either.

Peter
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> Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
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