[linux-laptop] What distro is best for easy Laptop installation?

[Robert Hart]

Dark Shadow wrote:
> I have not paid any attention to distro's in over four years as I have
> been using Linux From Scratch for that long. But I have just decided
> to buy a laptop and was wondering what current distro would be best
> for ease of laptop installation. One point is that it must be a 64 bit
> distro it well be running on this laptop
>   
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> I prefer light distros that are not resource hungry.
Easy to install generally implies that it autodetects and configures - 
which implies being a bit more resource hungry. My suggestion is that 
you try Fedora 5 which installed perfectly on my Toshiba - with the 
exception of the wireless (ipw2100) adapter that requires a binary 
driver (and is not in Fedora for that reason).

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