OT: Linux Distro on Laptop Options

[Sparky]

So I've got this spare Thinkpad T23, they are cheap on eBay, and wanted to run something lite and not resource intensive for using out in the garage. I decided on Linux, but trying to get any of the bigger name distro's to install was a pain in the a$$.... I spent several hours trying RedHat and suSe and Slackware. It would literally take the better part of a day to get anything running half stable but with quirky xwindows problems. Then I found Ubuntu...Very nice and easy to install distro, it's one of those Live CD versions so you can run off of the cd to test it out before doing the install. In all it probably took 30 minutes to install and has been running smoothly without any issue for about 24 hours now. I haven't tweeked the kernel yet but it self installed and configured ON A LAPTOP! That is almost of unheard of in the Linux world.

Ok done geeking out... back to grinding rust (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/dry.gif)

My best,
Mike D.

[cnavarro]

Fedora- one of my friends from college spent the weekend visiting us and he put fedora on his newer dell laptop in a matter of hours and had it fully configured and running flawlessly which I thought was astonishing, since he had never touched a linux box. Interface was very intuitive and was comparable to windows. Did take about an hour to get the wireless to work- he had to go wire in directly to the router in the garage to get it to work. That was the only hiccup.