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

[Jeremy Blosser]

briank at hex.net [briank at hex.net] wrote:
> 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.

Can you explain why you think this is?  PCMCIA info is just based on the
pcmcia-cs stuff, and video hardware is XFree86... both of these are equally
available to all the distributions, so it would seem to be a function
primarily of how current they are.  IME RedHat usually isn't really that
current*, and on a laptop I just had to upgrade pcmcia-cs when I got a new
ethernet card.

*not that anyone else is.  Distro wars to /dev/null.

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