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linux on notebook

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has anyone experience with it?
I'm thinking about installing SuSE on my notebook to force myself using some linux ;)
I already installed it a couple of times on my old PC but killed it in time to put a windows on it again.
If you're using it on your notebook: how long did it take you to get things running?
edit: ahh anyway, I'll give it a try :twisted:
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On my notebook, RedHat and Mandrake both ran beautifully (and this was one of those designed for Windows notebooks). So I say go for it and have fun. =)
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Yo, it seems to work. Now I'm just looking for supsend-to-disk support ;)
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check out linux.org

http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html

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Volka, what's the difference between having linux on a desktop computer as opposed to a laptop?

Debian.mmmmmm.......woody!
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main problem w/ linux on laptops...

proprietary hardware

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are u using like, a Windows Linux dist., j/k. R u dissin' linux, foo?
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Linux Rocks!! i run it at home, and i advocate it in my work. but the fact is... it doesn't work on all laptops... manufacturers built stuff with specific OSes in mind.

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new version of Debian came out a few days ago, Woody, they'll likely have more driver compatibilities...
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lucky me - hardware's fully supported with 2.4.18 kernel except the modem (pffff).
Now I have to figure out, why it's accessing the harddisk so often (drains my accu very fast).
Never had a X-Server on my linux-server before. 'Til now a remote X-Server (seldom used) did it, speed was irrelevant. But now.....KDE3 is nice - but slow :?
And what the hack is kdeinit? Every 15min it's taking up to 98% cpu-usage and almost 2/3 of the memory. It will take a while before I get used to it.
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sounds like you need more ram, the HD access most likely is the system using your swap partition a lot. And the kdeinit must requite a lot of ram, so it is never getting loaded all the way leading to over use of the cpy to swap and such, just a guess.

Cheers Moe :)
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both SuSE 7.3 and Red Hat 7.3 worked great on my Sager notebook that came with Windows Me. Dual booting is fun!
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