Agreed! I have a HP laptop (ZE4325US) which is the most hellishly non-standard beast I have seen. I tried Mandrake, SuSE, and Knoppix, and none of them would install with ACPI, PCMCIA etc functioning. With Mepis, everything, including wireless, installed painlessly and works flawlessly. Michael Ray Havens wrote: >On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:02 am, Alan Dayley wrote: > > >> I recommended Mandrake 9.2 because I found the installation to >>be quite painless. >> >> > >Mepis is even better. Everything 'just works'. Well, it used too. I updated >something and now kmail won't make a noise when new mail arrives. I am >talking about version 2003.10.2 . They have a new one (which I know nothing >about) and they even have a comercial version and a free version now. I >believe that there are members on this board who have the new version(s). I >await their comments and support! > >I would tell your son's friend about this. > > -- Lee Einer Dos Manos Jewelry http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com --------------------------------------------------- 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