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  • From: Bo Williams <bo AT mrboboto.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Linux distros (was re: politech vote hacking blah blah)
  • Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:23:43 -0500

Just download liveCDs from various distros until you find one that works. If it'll boot the CD, it'll boot after an install.

grady wrote:
Everything *but* Suse. I'm not really wedded to Suse; a friend just said that his network install had gone pretty smoothly & that it seemed to have better ACPI/laptop support than various other oldschool distros.

And no, don't try to tell me to do Gentoo on this 2-year-old thinkpad with a tiny hard drive.

Speaking of non-bleeding-edge hardware, does anybody have a suggestion for a good small-footprint distro that's actually currently being maintained that would be a good match for a Transmeta 3200-based touchscreen webpad type device, booting from a 512-meg CF card?

Semi-current maintenance would be nice primarily because I need the prism-GT wireless chipset support that's in the 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels.

One would think that Transmeta's own Midori aka Mobile Linux would be a good candidate, but they appear to have abandoned that ship back in 2001 or so.

Ross

Bo Williams wrote:

Does Pair Networks have a SuSe mirror? Their gentoo mirror is always supser fast for me.

grady wrote:

Well, the Greens & Libertarians are going to formally request a recount in Ohio once the results are certified. Is anybody doing the same for Florida?

Ross

p.s. also, does anybody know the fastest server from which to do a network install of Suse 9.1? Don't say ibiblio; I keep getting horked up partway through.

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