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 >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 >> >>--------------------------------------------------- >>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >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. > >-- >Slackware Linux - >Find out about the 4S rule. >www.slackware-advocacy.org/whyuse.html > >Then try it out for yourself. >www.slackware.org > >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail