disto for laptop

Sat, 1 Mar 2003 13:12:06 -0700

Thanks, Mark. But the curious thing is, Lindows is based on Debian. Maybe I'll 
try Lindows 3.1 beta. The thing I REALLY like about Debian is apt-get. Lindows 
did not detect my soundcard (though it did detect my SMC PCMCIA card (no other 
distro sets it up properly)). So I did an apt-get on "sndconfig." Ran sndconfig 
and away I went! It was kinda cool.
Other than the speed issue, I personally think Lindows is ideal for a laptop.
Mark M.

Quoting Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>:

> Mark,
> 
> I ran into the same problems with my old Inspiron 3000 (233 MHz Pentium 
> MMX, 148 MB RAM, 6 GB hard drive). I had the same issue with Redhat 7.3, 
> but I had to rebuild the kernel since it would not recognize my pcmcia 
> cards. When I recompiled the kernel I tried to optimize it for Pentium MMX, 
> but I noticed very little if any speed improvement. I then installed 
> Mandrake 8.2 and it is much faster, and Debian is even faster (even using 
> X).
> 
> In addition, Mandrake and Debian did a much better job with the NeoMagix 
> video chips - the fonts are much crisper and the whole screen "pops" just 
> as it did with Windows. (I think Redhat 7.3 used an earlier version of 
> Xfree, so that was probably the problem with the display, and I never tried 
> to install a new version and I am not sure what Redhat 8 uses).
> 
> Mark Phillips
> Phillips Marketing, Inc.
> mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
> 480 945-0798
> 480 945-9197 fax
> 
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> however, a significant number of electrons may have been inconvenienced.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	myers@fastq.com [SMTP:myers@fastq.com]
> Sent:	Saturday, March 01, 2003 12:47 PM
> To:	plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject:	disto for laptop
> 
> I have a Compaq Armada 7792DMT laptop w/96 MB RAM and 5 GB hard disk. It 
> has a
> Pentium 266M processor (not PII). I have installed RedHat 8 & Lindows 3 on 
> it
> (yes, I paid $99 for a Linux distro) but they both seem very slow. The only 
> OSes that I get to run a a decent speed are Mandrake and Win2K.
> I really want to use RedHat 8 on it. After install, if I recompile the 
> kernel,
> will that help my speed issues?  I know it is never going to be blazing in 
> X,
> but it really shouldn't take 15 seconds to get the reply window up when
> replying to an e-mail in Evolution.
> TKIA.
> 
> Mark Myers
> 
> 
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