Hi guys.

I come from Slackware when it used to be a Single cd distro (Remember that?)

Unfortunately having tried the latest 12.2 (actually v13's hit now!) I realise I don't have the time or patience to sit in console configging away to my hearts content anymore.

As such I'm in need of a nice distro that's (relatively)easily to setup with my laptop hardware such as wireless, widescreen LCD resolution, graphics card etc out of the box. Mainly for internet and perhaps some unreal tournament 2004 (so the graphics card support is a must)

I'm contemplating Fedora core, how is it?
We have Ubuntu at work on some of the Netbooks, unfortunately I'm not fond of it.
Any advice?

My machine;
(Laptop, 2.0ghz single core centrino, 2gb ram, ati radeon mobility)

Kindest regards.

Try debian

Well I checked it out but wow, 5 Dvd's. That's quite something, I'm on a pretty slow dsl connection so can't imagine downloading that amount at this stage.

Ironically I have deb version 3 on disc from when I attempted to try it from a while back but the disc isn't booting pobably due to it being quite scratched.

You can do the netinstall, it will install the base system, you can add what you want.
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/

You could also run Debian Live persistent
http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/

sidux is debian unstable
I use the xfce cd version (380+MB)
http://sidux.com/

GRML is very cool and easy to remaster
I use grml-medium (200mb)
its debian stable/unstable/testing
http://grml.org/

the daily builds are the most up to date
http://daily.grml.org/

as far as your dial-up connection
you could always Buy the cd/dvd's too?
thru the mail

I could send you some
it'd be cheap for me and no charge to you

I can combine any yuou want on to a Master DVD set and send it
fedora too
you want fedora Constantine?
LOL

I'm finishing up my current release
ThorsHammer-beta-083009.iso
http://multidistro.com/

you can buy official stuff from OSDisc.com too
http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.c...ad=distrowatch

Give Mandriva 2009.1 a try. It have a live bootable cd that you can install to the hard drive.

Hmm I'd say a Debian net install or Arch Linux could suit you quite nicely. Then once wicd or network manager is installed you should be good to go.

As for Fedora Core, I found it to be a little to unstable for my taste to go with it for a long period of time. (It's nice overall but just more than I wanted to deal with on my laptop.)

And finally if you don't want Debian or Arch, you could give Linux Mint a whirl. I've heard good things about it even though it is based on Ubuntu. (I'm not really an Ubuntu fan either.)

Sabayon Linux.

Well,..
for a one CD distro that pretty much has everything OOTB,...why not just go with Linux Mint 7? I know it's based on Ubuntu,..but has pretty much everything already set up. It's a "time-saver". If you like something "light-weight" with a lot of stuff (OOTB) I usually use Vector Linux "standard". (Vector Linux is as close as I want to get to Slackware)....

and I second what Zeig30CT said: