Finally found my linux distro

[Leto Atreides II]

http://www.ubuntulinux.org

I've tried several distros, with success ranging from not even being able to install to crappy sound/video support. And NOTHING has worked on my Sager np5690. Until I discovered Ubuntu. Install was painless, and IT ACTUALLY AUTODETECTED 90% of my Sager's components. Only thing not working is wireless, but that doesn't work anymore in windows either. This is a very good distribution if you don't know a lot about linux, and it's good for a family box because it doesn't have a root account by default, so grandma doesn't have to enter a password to login or shutdown. None of my computer classes require VS anymore, so my last remaining link with windows is game support, which I'm afraid linux will never come close to.

 

[gsferrari]

I use Mandrake 10. I have a Sager NP-8790. it detected everything...including ATi card...wireless was easy to configure thanks to some help from folks on this forums. I have setup the instructions in the linux section of notebook forums (I am gsferrari over there as well).

Cheers!

 

[Leto Atreides II]

I think the wireless mini-pci card is somehow broken. That's the only explanation I can come up.

 

[k.ODOMA]

I've heard a bunch of good things about Ubuntu. It's Debian-based right?

 

[Welly Wu]

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[averydonovan]

I'm surprised with how good Fedora Core 2 is. It auto-detected all my essential hardware and has a decent update system. A bit on the slow side but for something that you can just install and then just start using it is not bad at all. I finally booted into it again after 2 months and am running Up2date right now. I'd have installed Gentoo but I didn't feel like screwing around with getting everything configured.

 

[Leto Atreides II]

I found out about it here http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/...m=647005316631

Sort of an 11th hour rescue, since I need a working linux box for class tommorrow morning.

 

[Leto Atreides II]

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Originally Posted by k.ODOMA I've heard a bunch of good things about Ubuntu. It's Debian-based right?

Yeah. A lot of people have just installed it over sid, although they reccommend a clean install.

 

[Leto Atreides II]

After some soldering, wireless now works. Damn tiny capacitors.

 

[quke]

Quote:

Originally Posted by donovansmith I'm surprised with how good Fedora Core 2 is. It auto-detected all my essential hardware and has a decent update system. A bit on the slow side but for something that you can just install and then just start using it is not bad at all. I finally booted into it again after 2 months and am running Up2date right now. I'd have installed Gentoo but I didn't feel like screwing around with getting everything configured.

Fedora being based on Red Hat even the Core 1 was very good at that. Installed it to my old IBM ThinkPad and everything worked from the first boot up. I don't know about the slowness though. It's on a Pentium I or II and even the all-bells-and-whistles GNOME runs smoothly.

 

[averydonovan]

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Originally Posted by quke Fedora being based on Red Hat even the Core 1 was very good at that. Installed it to my old IBM ThinkPad and everything worked from the first boot up. I don't know about the slowness though. It's on a Pentium I or II and even the all-bells-and-whistles GNOME runs smoothly.

Well, slow compared to Windows XP (even with themes enabled) or Gentoo with WindowMaker as the window manager and about the same as Debian (sorry Debian users, but I wasn't impressed with it). It's definately a good thing that RedHat/Fedora has improved so vastly since an easy-to-install distribution that just works is needed to entire more users to Linux. Even relative power-users like me who find Gentoo easy to install just don't like to spend time on that stuff if they don't have to.

 

[Leto Atreides II]

Well, X stopped working and I keep getting errors saying it isn't installed and I need to edit gdm.conf. I'm thinking I'll just use Cygwin. It was golden for about 24 hours, and now all I have is bash and lots of things are very broken.

 

[Stephonovich]

I looked into Ubuntu. Wasn't all that impressed. But then, I like tweakability, the type that only Gentoo or LFS can give you.

And what's this about no root account? Linux HAS to have a root acount. It can't run without one. Surely you don't mean you're running in root for normal usage?!