[SATLUG] 64bit distros on laptops

[R. Tyler Ballance]

On Nov 11, 2006, at 1:51 AM, Tom Weeks wrote:

> Anyone want to share their 64bit distro/laptop experience?  I'm  
> doing FC6/x_64
> and have heard a lot of laptop driver doom and gloom.

Laptop driver doom and gloom is distro independent, its all the linux  
kernel, so its all the same suck (if anybody mentions Debian/ 
kFreeBSD, I'll shoot 'em ;))

Anyways, I've start to really push SUSE Enterprise or openSUSE 10.1  
both professionally and personally in terms of Linux. Novell has done  
some things wonderful I think redhat still can't figure out, making  
rpms work, and distributing stuff that's USEFUL! (mdnsd, Mono,  
optional proprietary packages, etc)

SUSE's repositories have a pretty good set of mobile computing  
packages (all nicely grouped into the "Mobile Computing" category,  
fancy that). That said, I'm running SUSE/amd64 without problems, but  
not on a laptop.


That said, bring it ubuntu fanboys ;)


Cheers

R. Tyler Ballance: Lead Mac Developer at bleep. software
contact: tyler at bleepsoft.com | jabber: tyler at jabber.geekisp.com