I'll agree with Ubuntu as well. I put it on an old Toshiba Tecra 8000, and 6.06 had found the thermal controls, audio, video (eventhough there is no 3D accell for the NeoMagic chipet it runs), the Dell OEM Orinoco PC Card, etc. I added a "vga=792" to the grub configs so that it will always have a full screen console in a normal boot. Otherwise it's been mostly running fine as-is. Of course it's only a P2 300, but with 256MB RAM it's comfortable. I also put 6.06 PC on a B&W G3 Mac. It installed and recognized most things fine as well. There is not accell support for ATI cards on PPC, so the stock 66MHz PCI video sucks, but such is life.
Jon.
On 10/22/06, steve trog [email protected] wrote:
does ubuntu come in one of those books that you can buy at the store, like redhat, fedora core or suse does? i like to get the ones that come with the book even though im ot new to linux im not the master with it.
P.S. what days is ITech on? i wanna go this year i havnt been in a while. i also wanna see your guys' booth.
From: "Jason D. Clinton" [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected] CC: steve trog [email protected] Subject: Re: linux distro for laptop Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:36:19 -0500
On Sunday 22 October 2006 09:09, Brad wrote:
I recently got a new Sony Vaio and I put Ubuntu on it. I was impressed that pretty much everything worked out of the box except the built-in webcam.
Even though I use Debian for everything, I also recommend that you use Ubuntu if you are new to Linux and especially if you are going to be using a laptop.
-- Jason D. Clinton Something clever goes on this line.
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