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Try google and www.linux-on-laptops.com to see what kind of luck people have had on this particular model. The best thing to do is to try a Live CD and see how well it detects your hardware and whatnot. There's Knoppix, Mandriva Move, and several other good live distros.
Originally posted by thunderweasel Try google and www.linux-on-laptops.com to see what kind of luck people have had on this particular model. The best thing to do is to try a Live CD and see how well it detects your hardware and whatnot. There's Knoppix, Mandriva Move, and several other good live distros.
My friend told me that his friend have one have no proplem with that and my friend told me his laptop is very fast.
But I will look up right now and see.
Check out the HCL on this website too. If you know the specs of the laptop (could get them from the web), you can easily check the components for compatibility. But as with the previous post, a Live CD is probably a good way to try it, but not all distros once installed have the same automatic detection. At least if you know it works on a Live CD, a bit of configuring by hand will getting it going.
i have a presario x6110US, ive made some progress using FC4, wireless, display, etc... It can be done... have no fear
im still working out audio, and java runtime issues...
Originally posted by basileus Also check out www.tuxmobil.org. There are more Linux pages devoted to different laptop models.
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Check out the HCL on this website too. If you know the specs of the laptop (could get them from the web), you can easily check the components for compatibility. But as with the previous post, a Live CD is probably a good way to try it, but not all distros once installed have the same automatic detection. At least if you know it works on a Live CD, a bit of configuring by hand will getting it going.
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Distribution: Mandriva 2006 Free Try google and www.linux-on-laptops.com to see what kind of luck people have had on this particular model. The best thing to do is to try a Live CD and see how well it detects your hardware and whatnot. There's Knoppix, Mandriva Move, and several other good live distros.
You don't really have to worry about the laptop being "SuSE compatible". If someone has made Debian, Mandriva or Fedora work on it, it WILL work with SuSE also. Any problems you might encounter with any laptop are unlikely to be distro-specific.
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