Ideal linux distro for laptops?

[NleahciM]

I'm trying to choose a distro of linux for my laptop. I've heard Ubuntu is very good for laptops? What do yall think? Any others I should look at? Thanks!

 

[Schadenfroh]

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[Nothinman]

Debian.

 

[NleahciM]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
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A laptop is nothing like an ordinary computer.

 

[ShadowBlade]

whats the specs of you laptop?

 

[Nothinman]

A laptop is nothing like an ordinary computer.

They're not as different as you're implying either.

 

[ShadowBlade]

try damn small linux (50MB)

 

[NleahciM]

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade
whats the specs of you laptop?

Dell D600 - Pm 1.6, 1GB ram, Truemobile 1400 (802.11 A,B,G), 40GB 5400 RPM 8mb cache hard drive (I left 10gb of unpartitioned space after my windows partition for linux), radeon 9000 64mb video card. Not sure what other specs would be important...

 

[Davegod75]

i think suse is supposed to do well on laptops

I am a big fan of Ubuntu as well

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: NleahciM

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade
whats the specs of you laptop?

Dell D600 - Pm 1.6, 1GB ram, Truemobile 1400 (802.11 A,B,G), 40GB 5400 RPM 8mb cache hard drive (I left 10gb of unpartitioned space after my windows partition for linux), radeon 9000 64mb video card. Not sure what other specs would be important...

We've tested SUSE 9.2 specifically on our Dell D600s and it works EXTREMELY well on it. I'd highly recommend it.

 

[JFoobar]

My current Linux laptop has Suse 9.1 on it. It was a fairly painless experience installing, securing and using it. I took it and used it on the WiFi at Blackhat and Defcon in Vegas this past summer and never got 0wn3d, which is saying something.

That laptop is antiquated garbage, however. I haven't yet installed Linux on my new company laptop but when I get around to it it will either get Suse again or Ubuntu.

 

[MuffD]

I would suggest suse 9.2 for ease of installation. It picked up all my devices on my Thinkpad T40 (even wireless) with no problems.