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05-11-2006, 10:49 AM
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Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Ontario, Canada
Distribution: OpenSuSE
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Distro?!
Is there a specific distro that would be best to use on my laptop Its primary fucntion is word pocessing at school.
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05-12-2006, 02:16 AM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
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It depends on the specs. If its newish then any distros should be alright. Suse works very well on my TravelMate, so does Mandriva nd Fedora Core.
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05-12-2006, 02:20 AM
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Registered: Nov 2004
Distribution: Mandriva mostly, vector 5.1, tried many.Suse gone from HD because bad Novell/Zinblows agreement
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think of a better title next time
5020? not 5200?
Did you google?
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html |
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