Re: noobii question linux for laptop?

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Author: Craig White
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: noobii question linux for laptop?
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 17:39 -0500, wrote:
> Okay, long ago I installed Slackware 8 (or was it 9?) on my old IBM
> 385XD. Since it only topped at 96Mb of memory, small mattered.
>
> I don't advise Slackware cos it does little, if any, detection work.
> Mandrake's way better for that.
>
> When I last looked, wireless tended to be very poorly handled; has
> this been any improved in the last two years?

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of course they have - 2.6 kernel and releases by intel and code
improvements for prism and orinoco definitely help and hardware
detection and modules are continually improving

Craig

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