[ale] vFAQ: Good distributions on Dell D610 laptops

[Paul Cartwright]

Vernard Martin wrote:
> John Mills wrote:
>> ALErs -
>>
>> Wwhich Linux dietributions drop smoothly onto Dell D610 Inspiron laptops?
>> I have noticed that my live-CD Knoppix fails to start up XFree (but
>> RedHat-7.3 handles it just fine -- Go figure.). Also, it seems to have the
>> AC'97 based audio - possibly modem also - that some setups seem to handle
>> much better than others.
>>
>> I had excellent results with SuSE-9.3 on my Fry's laptop, including its 
>> AC'97 modem, so my inclination would be to go with SuSE again.
>>   
> I've had very good luck with Ubuntu and RedHat Enterprise Linux 
> Workstation edition.
> 
I have a DELL XPS M140, a year old, and Kubuntu works fine on it.

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Paul Cartwright