Using knoppix as a testing tool on a laptop.
Hi i may be buying a laptop off my friend in the near future. I am going to use knoppix to mess around with it to see if it would take kindly to linux. My main concern is that the video card is a Radeon and i know that Nvidia has always been good at supporting linux but Radeon is just starting to put resources towards linux development. So i have two questions:
1. Is there anything else i should do in knoppix that would help me determine if linux will run on it better that i wouldn't know about? 2. Would using Knoppix be a reliable way of testing? I would load the 2.6 kernel when i booted knoppix but im probably going to but fedora core 3 on there. So would the two distros being different make knoppix testing pointless? |
It definitely won't hurt to fire up knoppix, I have it and found that it is *very* good at autoconfiguring hardware. Sure beats the hoops I have to jump through to configure slackware. :D
FWIW, my home system has nvidia tnt2 card and it configures fine, sorry not sure about the Radeon hardware though... Cheers |
I would give Slax a shot on it. Slax is able to detect everything on my whitebox which is no small feat.
http://slax.linux-live.org/ |
Ubuntu ? ?
-Prasanta |
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