[NTLUG:Discuss] LapTops - was: Dallas Morning News article

[briank@hex.net]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 12:29:05PM -0600, Steve Baker wrote:
> If Kendall is listening - I'd be interested to hear why he recommends
> RedHat for Laptops.

I certainly can't speak for Kendall, but in my limited experience with
Linux and laptops (Dells, mostly), RedHat always seems to be able to
recognize PCMCIA cards and the somtimes-oddball video hardware that
laptop mfrs. seem to be so fond of...SuSE, which is my choice of
distros for non-laptops, doesn't do so well on the laptops I've tried
installing it.

> One of the annoying things about SuSE is that every time I install
> another package from the CD's using YAST, it restores the state of
> some system files that I've manually tweaked.

Have you tried setting ENABLE_SUSECONFIG=no in your /etc/rc.config
file?  I've not done this, but it should keep all your config files
intact after using YaST.

  --Brian