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« on: June 26, 2005, 07:26:09 PM » |
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I finally managed to downloaded Mandrake 10.1 DvD (2Gigs) and will download a few more of the more popular revisions later. Something I haven't heard anyone trying though, is putting Linux on a laptop. Do you have any experience doing this ? http://www.google.com/search?b...=%22Linux+on+laptop%22 |
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« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2005, 07:26:09 PM » |
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Linux on Laptop ?
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« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2005, 07:36:44 PM » |
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i just put fedora 4 on mine.
its no different than putting it on a desktop.
unless you don't have a floppy or a cdrom drive.
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« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2005, 09:14:58 PM » |
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I put SuSE 8.2 on my old lappy, and it worked perfectly... it even detected my wifi card and setup a network connection on its own!! I had to turn ACPI off to get it working right though. It wouldn't turn the CPU fan on so it would just cut out after a minute or so!
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« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2005, 05:09:53 AM » |
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Isn't 10.1 64-bit? Anyways, yeah no problem for laptops. That 10.1 kernel might not come with powernow, so make sure it isn't running your cpu at full load all the time. Most laptops have energy saving settings to make the battery run longer.
The big advantage of Linux on a laptop is that it has far smaller overheads than other OS and should run a lot smoother. Don't install more than you need (I assume you don't plan on running a server from the lappy) to keep it neat and fast.
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« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2005, 08:16:55 AM » |
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64? Hmmm... I don't know... I know nothing of Linux yet.
I've just been going on the brief descriptions found at WWW.LinuxISO.Org .
I'll download a few more distros once I have the chance... RedHat/Fedora and look into SuSE that Zut mentioned.
Some of the horror stories that I've been reading on other forums make it seem more complicated than it should be. I'll take my time and check the water before diving in...
THanks for the advice!
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« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2005, 09:24:35 AM » |
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Linux has to be the easiest OS that I have ever installed - the only problems will be if you have hardware that is not supported. Ofc, it is powerful enough that you can then totally screw stufff up later  |
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« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2005, 12:07:13 PM » |
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I installed both RedHat and Suse. No problems here, unless por the usual modem driver problem.
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« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2005, 03:18:20 PM » |
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I never used Linux on my laptop in the past because I HAD to have windows for school. But now that school is over, I am seriously considering Linux because it's a great application for a laptop. Meaning I only use my laptop for e-mail, internet, etc. So it would be a great platform to learn the OS on.
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« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2005, 04:45:21 PM » |
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Have already installed Redhat on a laptop and on my desktop, it makes no difference whatsoever.
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« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2005, 07:24:26 PM » |
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I installed Mandrake 10 on my IBM Thinkpad 600e, but there was a sound problem I was never able to resolve, so I moved back to Windows. Mandrake is one of the easiest distros to install, it's just like Windows, but there are definitely some distros that are a complete bear to install. Have fun and good luck!
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