Re: [Nolug] Distro suggestions

Alex <alex@boxchain.com> writes:

> I've never had an install work right out of the box, always due to
> weird hardware (3dfx cards, sony picturebook) and advanced demands
> (bleeding edge kernel features like acpi, swsusp, tigl, etc.) But
> when I went looking for recipes on how to get linux on my picturebook
> (with no cd), the two distros that had the most success were deb and
> slack. This says a lot to me about a distro's flexibility.

What amazes me is that it seems harder to use, say, a wireless pcmcia
card in WindowsXP than Linux.

Granted, I make sure that the hardware I buy will work with Linux,
but even when that hardware also includes the "Designed for XP", or
whatever, logo, I have to go through more steps to get the hardware
to work under XP.

Mark.

-- 
Peace is only better than war if peace isn't hell, too.
    -- Walker Percy, "The Second Coming"
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