Re: Re: Linux On A Laptop
  By: MIKE POWELL to MIT on Sun Apr 09 2006 09:46 am

 > > I suggest installing Ubuntu. I recently installed it on an old
P3 "No-name
 > > Laptop that i had laying around and i must say that i am REALLY pleased wi
 > > how it turned out. It even detected a wireless PCIMA card.
 > 
 > That is what I wound up going with.  Based on the suggestion of another, I
 > got an IBM Thinkpad.  Apparently, it has a Winmodem in it, but Ubuntu
 > detected everything else, including the PCMCIA modem I had plugged in.
 > The laptop linux site, that someone else posted, also has a link to a driver
 > for the Winmodem, should one want or need it.
 > 
 > Mike
 > 

I really like Ubuntu... I'm running it on my iMac G3 now and might start 
using it instead of Slackware next time I reinstall.  My BBS is running on 
Slackware 10.2, but I chose Slackware mainly because I've used Sync on 
it before.  Ubuntu is a second fave though.

What's neat though, a friend loaded Fedora Core 4 (or whatever the latest 
is) and Wine totally worked with probably 90% of the programs he loaded.  
Literally using Wine he executed the Setup.exe and it installed with no 
problems!  I'm talking about Red Alert 2, MS Word and Excel 2000, and a ton 
of utils we use up at work.  I haven't tried this on Ubuntu yet, but I hope 
it's there too -- if not I'll be downloading it :)

Sam


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