Toshiba Satellite M30X laptop

[Matt Graham]

After a long battle with technology, Stephen wrote:
>> On 10/18/08, mike havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've done web searches but I prefer talking one-on-many. Which is the
>>> best laptop distro? Please be aware that if the group-decision is a dvd
>>> I will need someone to burn it as I do not have a dvd-burner.

FWIW, the 5" DVD+-RWs are pretty darn cheap at $35 after shipping from NewEgg.  
In 2000, a 4x CD-RW was $180.  My, how stuff gets cheaper (except laptop 
parts....)

>> hardware works by simply installing the module back ports. A lot of
>> folks don't like ubuntu but I work on borked centos boxes all day so
>> when I get home I want things to just work. That said the next big
>> thing is suppose to be pclinuxos so it may be worth a look

RPM has its flaws, though they've papered over most of them.  All distros have 
warts; the key is to find one whose warts you can live with.

> that said Gentoo is a decent choice as well, however it is a lot more
> involved to get running

The thing that takes the longest is setting all the USE flags.  Then 
you "emerge kde" and let it run overnight, and everything after that is 
incremental.  Unless something like the libexif mess that happened a while 
back happens again.

> Or possibly OpenSUSE, but while it may have lots of bells and whistles it
> loads a TON of stuff. 

SuSE has always had more weird bugs than other distros IME.

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