I can highly recommend MEPIS as I've been running it on my HP ze4420us
laptop for quite some time now, and have had no problems with it. 
To view some video files, you may have to go to the Mplayer website, download 
the "essential codecs" package, untar it and install the files 
into /usr/lib/win32. For video viewing, I find that I prefer xine, since 
mplayer doesn't appear to have a front end under Debian based distros like 
MEPIS, although the mplayer plug-in for Firefox works OK.

	Stu 

On Monday 29 August 2005 09:11, Josh Coffman wrote:
>  Let me say first, I like Fedora if only for the fact
> I've learned a lot getting it working on my laptop.
>
>  I'd like a distro that will run well on my hp z5440
> laptop, and is easy to update, and makes a good
> desktop for non-techies. This weekend I went to
> moviefone.com to check previews for some movies and it
> wouldn't play any even though I have the mplayer
> plugin installed in firefox. I don't mind solving
> problems; actually I kinda like it. I just want to do
> it all the time.
>
>  I'm thinking of Mepis or Ubuntu or OpenSuSe.
> Whichever I choose for the laptop may end up going on
> the desktop also. Any opinions?
>
> -j
>
>
>
>
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