What's distro is better for my laptop?


Whats distro is more suitable for IBM Laptop  

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  1. 1. Whats distro is more suitable for IBM Laptop

    • Mandrake 9.2
      5
    • SUSE
      8
    • RedHad
      3
    • or may be Fedora
      4


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I would like to know which distro would works better and faster on my IBM laptop with 128 RAM, which distro would takes less resources????

Tnx for suggestions!! :)

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IMHO, when you are talking about a laptop with limited memory, the distribution is not as important as the windowmanager. KDE and gnome are very big and ram hungry. I would devinitely advise you to look at XFCE, or if you want to go really minimal blackbox.

I voted for SuSE because of it's acpi support. It is enabled out of the box and will respond to things like closing your lid, which redhat and fedora will ignore.

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Of the choices listed, I would say Mandy, because it defaults to having the lighter-weight Window Managers easily available.

If you really want to minimize resource useage, go text-based operation! ;) Other than that, fluxbox, icewm, twm, etc. are all GUI alternatives to KDE/Gnome (which are more than just WMs, they are Desktop Environments)

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If you've had any Linux experience before, I would recommend Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/). I have had it installed on my Dell Inspiron 8200 for several months, and am very, very happy with it. More difficult to get working than Mandrake and the like, but the installation instructions are, in my opinion, the best I've seen. So good in fact, you don't need the fancy GUI installations. Just my opinion, but I haven't had any problems and it runs great. :-)

~Colin

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