Laptop Install

[Aaron Cordova]

Hello Mr. Mabry,
I have the same model laptop as you and I use mandrake, it works really well 
and there was no tweaking required. I have heard the same about Red Hat and 
the 8200, since you already have the experaince with RH, go with it.






>From: James Mabry <jamabryl@student.gc.maricopa.edu>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Re: Laptop Install
>Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:49:15 -0700
>
>Jeff James wrote:
>>I am looking at installing either RedHat 8.0 Professional or SUSE 8.1 
>>Professional on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop along with the Win XP which 
>>already exists on it.  I was wondering if there was a recommendation of a 
>>Linux Distro which works best on laptops.  I've been familiar with RH 8,  
>>but am open to suggestions.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jeff
>>
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>Hey Jeff,
>I've used more distributions than I care to count on my Inspiron 8100. They 
>all work relatively the same, it's just some require more tweaking than 
>others. Redhat or Mandrake were the distributions that needed the least 
>amount of tweaking as far as hardware is concerned. You might want to 
>continue working with RedHat if that is what you are more familiar with.
>
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