[Mdlug] [mdlug] Distro Recommendations

[Peter Bart]

On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 21:00 -0500, Joseph Vartanian wrote:
> On 11/18/06, Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net> wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >         I'm looking for recommendations on a Linux distribution to be installed
> > on an IBM T30 laptop w/integrated wifi, cd/dvd combo drive, 1 meg ram,
> > 40 gig hd.
> >         I've been using SUSE 10.0 for almost a year now on the twin to this
> > machine and recently started to play with the Nokia flavor of Debian on
> > their internet tablet. So my experience is very limited. Obviously my
> > first choice would be SUSE because of my familiarity with it but I'd
> > like to keep and open mind.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> 
> Suse is a fine distro that has been around for years.  And in my
> opinion has pretty good laptop support compared to many other distros.
>  If you're familiar with Suse, and it works for you, then I see no
> compelling reason to switch...Especially if the switch would be to one
> of those fad distros that everyone seems to love until the next fad
> distro comes along.
> 
> -Joseph

	Thanks for the input Joseph. I am concerned about going with something
that is not going to work as well for me, particularly on a laptop.
However if I never work with anything else how might I know? I have
gotten many recommendations for Ubuntu, to many to ignore. One place I
asked in Ann Arbor Actually gave me a disc. So I might install that and
if that doesn't work I'll probably try opensuse 10.1. While I think SUSE
lacks that final polish; see my other posts :-); it does seem to be very
solid and reliable. 

Regards,

-- 
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net