[CS-FSLUG] Laptop and Linux - what to do?

[Peter J. Vasquez Sr.]

I also run Xubuntu on my Sony Vaio (VGN-T370P) .  Also having run several
other distros, Xubuntu had the most to offer for me on a laptop:
lightweight window manager with a great number of packages available via
apt-get.

> I have Xubuntu on a Sony Vaio VGN-FS760/W.  It runs great.  The only
> thing that doesn't work is the built in memory stick and the Fn keys.
> Not a problem for me.  I like Xubuntu because it's a full feature linux.
> It uses Xfce as the window manager which uses less resources than
> most of the ususal WMs.  I've used numerous distros: several Red
> Hats, a couple SuSes, Caldera (remember them? I worked for a sister
> co.),  Mandrake as well as several embedded and homebrewed distros.
> IMO, there isn't that much different between them.  Of all those I like
> Xubuntu the best.  (But I'm someone that misses NeXT and OS/2 so
> make your own conclusions.)  One of the things that I like Xubuntu
> for is apt-get and synaptic.  For me they always work.  SuSe's YaST
> and Red Hat's RPM manager failed me so often, I usually just compiled
> from a tarball.  Now, I hardly ever have to revert to compiling from
> source.
> Mark
>
> On 1/25/07, Hilding Egestal <he7316575 at yahoo.se> wrote:
>>
>> Well, I am quite familiar with Ubuntu now on my PC,
>> but I am going to put linux on my laptop. Your
>> experiences? Fedora Core 6? Kubuntu? Is there any
>> special distribution for Linux on laptop? I am using
>> 512 RAM. It is three years old. Are there problems
>> with batteries?
>>
>> As You already have read, I am quite fond of Bibletime
>> for KDE, but I am curious about Gnome2Sword (just
>> about).
>>
>> Have You seen a program for making musicsheets (is
>> that the word?) I am not a composer, but something I
>> will write for services.
>>
>> Hilding in Gothenburg, Sweden
>>
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