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

[hobbs]

I have been using ubuntu for the past 6 months and it is very good. Its 
installation is smooth, though the install disk only has the basic system and 
applications for a 'home' use, BUT it automatically sets up the synatic 
package manager which will provide everything else you need and vital updates 
too. This package manager is dead easy to use.

I have previously used Fedora & RedHat, also Suse but none of these are as 
easy to uase as ubuntu. However, if you are running a system where you need 
'maintenance' then you are probably stuck with suse/red hat.

In June 2006 unbuntu will launch its next release, probably good to wait for 
that as it will have a full openoffice 2 release (ubuntu 5.10 uses the 1.9 
something with a backport of the 2.0.1 which is OK but there is a problem 
with line thickness)

I would strongly recommend ubuntu if you have the choice.

Richard
On Wednesday 26 Apr 2006 19:20, 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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> One distro that would be nice to know about is Ubuntu as the only
> thing I know about it is that during my hours of googling for hardware
> compatability is that it was mentioned specifically as a successful
> install.
>
> I prefer light distros that are not resource hungry.
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