Laptop friendly Linux distros

[Ralph Ellis]

Suse 10.1 has a lot of laptop friendly features and soon will have more as the 
new kernel update is available. You can even get the kernel update now as it 
is available for download on the opensuse.org site as well. The only thing 
that you should note is that there is a fix to the automatic update function 
in the 10.1 distribution so you should run the YAST Online Update function on 
your first or second boot. The new kernel supports more of the wireless cards 
that are available on the market. Suse 10.1 also has more power conservation 
features available than earlier versions. Check out:

http://www.novell.com/products/suselinux/
http://www.novell.com/products/suselinux/mobility.html

but you can get all you need in a free download from:

http://en.opensuse.org/Download

I have been very pleased with Suse since version 10. 

The new version of Fedora Core is also out but I have not checked into the 
laptop support for version 5 yet. I find that Fedora supports slightly less 
hardware than Suse.
Ralph Ellis


On Wednesday 21 June 2006 10:47, teddy mills wrote:
> I have no problem with running Linux on desktops because there are few
> thermal issues.
> I do have a problem with running Linux on laptops, because I do not know
> what to look for to get the proper thermal support.
> I mean it has to be more than APIC thermal/fan level control?
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> Most Linux distros I have seen,  almost never turns on a laptop cpu fan
> at random times, no matter how hot the laptop is getting
> Can you recommend a distro that I can safely run on a laptop? Thank you
> in advance!
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