[ale] Laptops and Linux

[james at sumners.ath.cx]

SuSE 9.1 Personal drove me nuts when I loaded it on my laptop. It hardly
ever used the right driver for my wirless card and I could not figure
out how to force it to use a specific one. When it did decide to use the
right driver it would randomly drop the default gateway route.

That being said, 9.1 Personal is what my Grandfather uses on his
desktop. I have found that it is perfect for his use and is not too
difficult for me to maintain; though I do get frustrated with the RPM
system. I loaded SuSE over Debian because Debian changes too much
between releases and was really confusing my Grandfather.

I really hope the upgrade to 9.2 will be smooth when they release the
Personal edition.

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:38:44PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> I have an hp that is a multiboot that includes SuSE 9.2, Sun Java 
> Desktop and Mandrake 10.1 Official.  I highly recommend SuSE 9.2 for a 
> laptop.  It comes with a number of wireless drivers.  I've got two 
> laptops working with wireless cards that are running SuSE 9.2

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