It is being matched up with the Thinkpad W520 I just ordered. As long as it provides what is promised, and verified by Anand, then I am sure I will be very happy with it. :)
The drive size the manufacturer lists is always the max size available when it was ordered, not what can be installed in a system. You already know your system can accept larger hard drives.
Try base ubuntu (I haven't used Mint in over a year) and check that out, it has a restricted drivers manager that should download and install that driver just fine for you. I use that chipset (mini-pci) in my Dell Laptop at work.
You cannot install debs. PCLOS uses synaptic and APT as a front end to rpm. That is all. It is an rpm based distro.
It is a good distro as long as the hardware you use isn't newer than about 6 months old. I used to be a hard core PCLOS user but switched to Ubuntu last year when I bought a...
universe and multiverse are automatically enabled on 7.04, so no need to enable them.
Just open synaptic and search for quanta and you will see that it is already available to install. no need to compile. Most applications that you want/need can be installed this way. :)
EDIT: You might...
Not out of the box he won't. By default, the included players disable mp3 playback and Xine won't allow (again by default) you to install libdvdcss2 to play DVD's. This kind of crap is what drove me from SuSE in the first place 2 years ago. I have tried two releases since and that issue still...
Drag, I would typically agree with you regarding 16 bit performance vs 24 bit. However, the Flash player has a bug in it that will cause the browser to crash at 16bit. It is well documented. Unfortunately that leaves 24bit as the only reasonable color depth.
Tony
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