[CS-FSLUG] Laptop: Latest Episode

[Ed Hurst]

For those inclined to follow what I'm doing with my Latitude D505, I 
decided to give openSUSE a try. If I'm forced to use a mega-corp 
product, it might as well be Linux.

Turns out it's the only one which worked "out of the box" -- I get 
susped-to-RAM and hibernate without twiddling anything, from full GUI 
and back to full GUI with no operational glitches. I get Ndiswrapper 
working just fine with my Broadcom wirless. This is also the only 
distro I've found which offered me a full 1024x768 framebuffer 
resolution on my Intel graphics chipset.

I'm still not a fan of Novell and their corporate maneuvering with MS 
and others, but the product works for me. I have escaped Windows with 
full use of my laptop's features. I can't ask for more than that.

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Ed Hurst
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