Text 28403, 35 rader
Skriven 2007-02-14 14:07:39 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 28360 av August Abolins (1:229/2000)
Ärende: NOT a happy camper!
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:08:12 -0500, "August Abolins -> Joe Bruchis"
<1:229/2000> wrote:

Hi August:

 JBP>> Something else you guys might want to consider. If you plan to run
 JBP>> Linux  on a wireless laptop, it's not quite plug n' play in any
 JBP>> distro yet.  ...
 JBP>> It's going to take a lot of  tweaking, and one has to learn a lot
 JBP>> of command line to change it over  from the device eth0 (ethernert
 JBP>> card) to wlan0 (wireless lan). But first  you need the right
 JBP>> drivers and a program called ndiswrapper. I know.... (-:

 AA> I had the impression that the commercial distros of Linspire and Xandros
 AA> were the best for out-of-the-box customers.  I was thinking of leaning
 AA> towards Xandros myself.  I like it's inclusion of Codeweavers which is
 AA> supposed to allow concurrent operation of Windows programs in a
non-virtual
 AA> setup.

Xandros is a great Linux distro to run, but keep in mind that in order
to obtain Codeweavers and the NTFS driver from Paragon, you must
purchase Xandros Home Premium or the business edition.  The free
version of Xandros does not include Codeweavers or the NTFS driver.

As far as wireless is concerned I agree with Joe.  I know Alan has had
very good luck with both of his laptops but that certainly has not
been my experience.  Nor has it been for most of the posts I've read
on the various Linux forums that I visit.  Wireless in Linux, IMO, is
still touch and go.  It's getting better, however.

Regards.

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