[SATLUG] 64bit distros on laptops

[John Ziriax]

Ubuntu Edgy worked great on my Sony sz-370. I tested the live CD
first. Wireless, video and sound works fine. No camera and no
bluetooth though.

Just keep testing until you find one that you and the laptop both like.

John

On 11/11/06, Mitch Thompson <mitchthompson at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> >
> > 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 ;))
> >
> > <Stuff about SuSE deleted.>
> >
> > That said, bring it ubuntu fanboys ;)
> Heh, I'm a ubuntu fanboy, until "The Next Best Thing (tm)" comes along.
> Sorry, tweeks, I don't (yet) have a 64-bit laptop, (die, Toshiba, die!)
> so I can't help you there.  I do run Kubuntu Edgy on my laptop, and the
> Netgear WG-511T card works reasonably well.
>
> This has re-piqued my interest in putting my Netgear WG-311T PCI card in
> my AMD-64 workstation (also running Edgy) to see how well it works.
>
>
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John