Which distribution do you use?

Which distribution of Linux do you use on your laptop?

I have Kubuntu 6.10 on the K7 Kernel.

 

Edgy 6.10 dual booting with XP Pro.

 

I use Suse 10.1 on my laptop and old desktop and Kubuntu on my new desktop.

 

Ubuntu on my desktop machine at home. Also run debian on a couple of servers at work... although they've pretty much run themselves the last 18 months.

 

I would have used Ubuntu Edgy. The only thing that stopped me was the lack of wireless drivers.

 

I use Ubuntu Edgy, with the kernel listed in my sig. I dabble in Arch Linux as well, as I love pacman, though it takes a bit of tinkering to get everything running acceptably.

 

I use Edgy as well though I'll being trying a few other distros over the next few weeks.

 

Mandriva, which I see is not in the poll (but DSL is? )

 

I just downloaded Ubuntu from the LiveCD. I think they could make the partitioning instructions a little more intuitive, but I figured it out in the end.

 

Gentoo on my new Asus A8Js. Works great. The only trick was to work around the current (2006.1) install CD not having correct drivers for the internal ethernet port, Realtek 8168, or WiFi, Intel 3945, on it. Once I got my network up and running, install was smooth, although Gentoo's compile approach takes more time, I prefer the configurability of the distro, as well as its up to date HW support, (in portage, not necessarily on the install CDs, although it eventually gets there). It s definitely not the distro for Linux beginners. The one time I tried Ubuntu on a Toshiba laptop, I found that experience much easier to setup.

 

Ubuntu on both my laptops, though I had OpenSUSE 10.1 at one point on my M90. Right now, I'm using Edgy 6.10 on my M90, and my C640 is kind of in an in-between state, meaning that I tried upgrading and it screwed everything up and now I'm trying to fix it.

 

http://hpwiki.cactii.net/hpwiki/Presario_V3***

I used to use ndiswrapper on my old laptop, and it worked fine. It's worth a shot

 

Slackware, ya buncha pinks!

Actually I use Ubuntu on this old laptop sometimes, just because it's very very easy to get running. My primary goals are knowledge and control though, so mostly I use Slackware.

 

I have been using Kubuntu on my old Fujitsu P7010 for almost half a year and very happy with it. The only thing need to tweak there is to use the 915resolution program to make the integrated video card display WXGA properly. Unfortunately, there is a mechanical defect on the hinge of P7010, I had to start my search of a secondary laptop, hence end up with Asus V6Va.

I use Kubuntu 6.06 Dapper on my new Asus V6Va (grabbed from newegg for $1400 two weeks ago). The biggest problem is to have the ATI X700 video card work. Google is my friend, and now everything works like a charm, even the multimedia card : )

Enjoying the fabulous IPS screen.

 

I am actually using Linuix Mint which is Ubuntu with audio and video codecs installed.
www.linuxmint.com
Alex

 

My vote was Red Hat but I am running CentOS which is basically Red Hat with a different logo.

 

I run sidux essentially debian sid.

Edit: kanotix is going to move to a more stable system- either etch or ubuntu based repos. I want to stay on the bleeding edge

 

I am surprised that Ubuntu and Kubuntu have been so popular since it is famous for a lack of wireless cards. Ndiswrapper Usually works, though. It actually took me a week to fine wireless drivers for my broadcom card, but eventually I got it to work.

 

My Xterasys wireless card worked out of the box,(and it is not on any linux forum I could find) just had trouble setting up a connection with my router. But that was not the fault of Ubuntu, you can read about it in the "Wireless Help!!!!!!!!" thread if you want to.

 

I have mine on a desktop so I don't really need wireless. I wouldn't mind having it on a notebook though, wireless cards aren't all that expensive if the one you have doesn't work.

 

Gentoo here

gonna try Kubuntu on my lappy soon

 

I nuked suse off my machine. Now I'm using Ubuntu on my laptop and my desktop has Fedora and Elive.

 

I love Gentoo. The way /etc is structured just feels natural to me. And I love the use flags, plus Portage is awesome and is generally very up-to-date.

 

It actually took me a week to get my wireless card working. As it turns out, there was a whole article on how to use the Broadcom BCM43xx cards with Ubuntu.

When I have enough money to build a desktop, I will probably put Gentoo on.

 

I've just recently put Fedora Core 6 on my machine in place of XP. I have put Mandriva (yeah, why is that not on the list???) on my mac in parallels along with another install of FC6.
I would like to try Suse 10.1, but I've heard the package manager is trash. I've actually never had Ubuntu install succesfully on my machines (older version of Ubuntu).

 

I just installed Sabayon Linux 3.2. Very nice first impression, only distro I've used that has successfully configured my X1400 right off the bat. Will be interesting to see how this distro comes along in the future.

 

I'm actually in the middle of downloading Sabayon. (18 more hours...) I keep hearing good things about it. Even that its better than Ubuntu. This one may finally replace Suse for me.

 

Thing is those distros are breaking the terms of the GPL by including the non-free drivers... a bit of a crappy ethical situation.

 

Including proprietary addons doesn't break the GPL. But you're right, there is the ethical dilemma. Unfortunately, I need the fglrx drivers, the open source ones don't support the X1K series.

 

I was under the impression that as a distribution, inclusion of "binary blobs" was uncool. Users adding them is their prerogative.

I could be wrong, it's been known to happen.

 

hahaha, yeah, "uncool" it is. But, I didn't install Sabayon because of it's "binary blobs". It's overall a very polished and well done distro.

 

I use LinuxMint as well, simply because I'm lazy and I like the look and not having to hunt down the w32codecs .deb. A word of advice: Beagle, like Google Desktop on Windows, is a massive resource hog with both hard drive access and CPU time, and should be the target of your first "sudo apt-get remove". The Unix search tool is pretty fast anyways.

 

hmmm, I've found it kinda useful. I find that it is initially a CPU hog when it is building the index, but it's pretty tame once that's built.

 

Ubuntu, Debian...good stuff.

 

Currently trying Sabayon. This is a pretty nice distro. Lots of cool eye candy and pretty tame once it starts up.

 

Sabayon 3.2 64 bit mini CD on my Asus A8JS. I have had Ubuntu 6.10 and the latest Mint Linux running also. So far I prefer Gentoo and Sabayon will probably stay on.

 

I use Puppy Linux 2.13. It works great on my Dell E1405 with C2D T7200 and it's really fast and lightweight (~80MB for the entire distro).

 

Has anyone tried out PCLinuxOS 2007 Test 1? It seems to be getting rave reviews and has held the top spot on distrowatch for the past week, even though it's not even a final release.

 

ubuntu 6.10 on hp nx9420 with nvidia quadro 510m, download the latest bios for VT.

Just about everything worked out of the box, I grew up on debian and apt ubuntu is a natural choice.

I still need windows for some apps so I created a small fat32 partition and store firefox and thunderbird profiles there that both OS's share. So far its working out great.

 

Yea sounds like its pretty good and from what I understand very stable even in its bata form I might give PClinuxOS another try with this one. I hear that the full release is in 15 days though.

 

I use PCBSD and DesktopBSD for my laptops and I'm so happy with the BSD power so far

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=99703

 

Fedora core - Linux
FreeBSD - Unix

 

Puppy Linux 2.13
OpenSUSE 10.2
Knoppix 5.1.1

These have all worked well for me on my Dell Inspiron E1405 with Core 2 Duo.

Plan to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my laptop when I get a chance.

 

Debian etch, on a Compal HEL-80 and an IBM T43.


-j

 

i use gentoo ....all the way.. a great distro!

Highly recommended.

 

> Which distribution do you use?

For desktop or for server? I think most people would use different distros for the two environments which are very different.

 

I just installed Ubuntu on my brand new Dell E1705. I installed the 64-bit Feisty version which is still in Alpha state (planned release date is Apr 2007). So initially when trying to resize the Vista partition it failed, so I aborted the install but afterwards Vista couldnt boot anymore.

Oh well, it was a good opportunity to reinstall Vista and get rid of all the Dell junk software (as well as the hidden partitions on disk that just waste space). So I reinstalled Vista (Vista is really easy to install, I didnt even need to install any Dell specific drivers) and this time left 20GB free space on the disk.

After that I installed Ubuntu feisty. It was easy to install the nvidia driver. Only problem was with wireless not working, but thyat's a known issue with the broadcom driver. The solution is to use ndiswrapper utility, and that works great.

 

@Tichondrius - Feisty is developmental, I hope you know. That means that it WILL break, sometimes randomly. Are you on Herd 3 or 4 ? We'd be curious to hear your experiences in a new thread here at NBR.

 

Indeed, I'm quite excited about Feisty, so I would look forward to hearing about it.

 

I'm dual-booting Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) with XP Pro... using Ubuntu as my main OS and XP as a backup for cases when Ubuntu can't handle something correctly.

So far so good... everything went pretty smooth except for setting up my network printer.