Linux on laptops

[stu]

Suse 9.3 was my first taste of Linux ever. I installed it on my HP ze4420us 
pavilion laptop, and accidentally wiped out my XP partition! I decided I 
didn't need Windows after all, and never looked back. Since then, I've 
gravitated towards Debian flavors, but I was happy enough with Suse when I 
was running it.

On Friday 12 May 2006 21:09, Daniel Parraz wrote:
> I am running Novell Suse 10.0 on my Toshiba A85-S107 with 1.4Celeron and
> 768RAM, and have really enjoyed the speed of the system and ease of usage.
> Setup of almost all hardware was done at setup, with eth0 and modem config
> lacking on the network side. Config of these was easy, but havent had a
> chance to test the modem - eth0 appears to operate at gigabit speed.
>
> Updates are painless, burning bootable iso's or regular data cd's is nice,
> dvd playback has been funky due to the Novell version of media player, that
> doesn't like the plug-in for viewing protected dvd's...but the work around
> is just to get the non-Novell version from what I have read.
>
> Only thing I wish was different, would be the wireless network tools. Seems
> like profiles are not used(havent found a way), so you have to keep a
> record/text file of SSID and wep keys that you have for multiple networks.
> An interface like the Nokia 770 I have would be nice, so that if the
> default WLAN is not found, it will search for other broadcasting and show
> the status of the AP, and chose one to connect to.
>
> Otherwise, very satisfied at the ease of usage and improvements gnome has
> had in the last 4-5 years that I have used it.
>
> Daniel Parraz
>
>
>
> "Wagner, Steven G" <digital9ja at cox.net> wrote: >I have enjoyed using
> OpenSuse 10.0 the most on work stations and notebooks.
>
> >I had not touched Suse for 10 years when I hated it.  I had no problem
> >installing it and YaST has sure come a long way (very nice tool).  It
> > seems to run quicker that Ubuntu, was not quiet as simplified as Ubuntu,
> > but sure had a short learning curve.  I use YaST to configure wireless
> > with Suse which works ok, but still think the wireless adapter
> > configuration tools
>
> are
>
> >poor!
>
> I'm running opensuse 10 on my dell 2200 inspiron (w/1.6ghz celeron m &
> 512mb ram) and it's great. Initially, I had trouble finding any third party
> repository servers for opensuse that were worth a $%*, but now I've got
> some added in and can actually find, what I consider to be, basic binary
> builds.
>
> I'm using my notebook with a Pasadena Networks 325HP+ wifi card and
> regularly run Kismet, Ethereal and all the other usual pen-testing apps.
> Also, I'm using it to study LAMP programming and run that stuff too. I
> installed Debian, Fedora and Slackware on this machine before I finally
> settled on opensuse 10. opensuse 10 configured everything perfectly (even
> the synaptics touch pad which winxp didn't even configure correctly), I
> loved the installer and I'm very happy with opensuse so far.
>
> Lately, I've been wondering whether it would be better to just purchase
> SUSE and get all the non-free goodies, but I'm going to keep searching for
> free ways to duplicate a full SUSE install.
>
> Here's the original article that convinced me to go with SUSE:
> http://turing.sunyit.edu/nallalr/Files/SUSE_on_DELL/SUSE_on_DELL.htm
>
> I'm planning to install Gentoo on this system eventually, but I want to do
> it right and install and configure a broad variety of apps and protocols so
> I'm going to hold off until I have about 9- 12 dedicated days to spend on
> it. I'm really gellin' with opensuse so until I convert to Gentoo, I'm
> riding it till the fans fall off!
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