evan Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 Hey, Just a quick question. Does debian run smoothly on laptop? Im just thinking to give it a try. Any suggestions for the installation are extremely welcome. thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 18, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 18, 2004 If one distr runs smoothly, they pretty much all will. The question is, will your laptop be fully functional? LAN, Video, Modem, ACPI? If you have a Knoppix CD, I would give it a try. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F|shy Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 Yeah give Knoppix a try because as far as i know, if it can get everything running smoothly for you, it shouldn't be too much hassle to get it running on any other distro (i use Gentoo on my dads Compaq N600c, had Debian running on it too). Also keep an eye out for what drivers/modules Knoppix loads for you (when it scans your hardware it tells you what modules it loads for that hardware) ie. maestro3 (sound card) or 8139too (RTL8139 network). It's useful to know when your finding them yourself in Debian or any other distro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 I have never tried debian, but all of the distros I have tried have run better than windows on my laptop. The are faster and save more power than windows so my battery will last longer and I will still be running as good as windows. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR_Candyman Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 I have never tried debian, but all of the distros I have tried have run better than windows on my laptop. The are faster and save more power than windows so my battery will last longer and I will still be running as good as windows. :) so you noticed the battery thing too? weird eh? it SHOULD be based on hardware, but the OS itself makes a HUGE difference... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splatnix Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 so you noticed the battery thing too? weird eh? it SHOULD be based on hardware, but the OS itself makes a HUGE difference... I really wonder where the optimizations for battery life come into play. On a 4460mAh [66Whr] battery, Windows saw about 2.5-3 hours of Starcraft playing (running display, decent CPU usage, 2 less taps from brightest display setting, constant CD usage) back in the day. It's a year later, and Linux, running Starcraft (and dnetc RC-72), same settings, sees 4-4.5 hours or so. How? :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: evan: You can also look to these sites for info on specific models of laptops: - TuxMobile's Laptop Database - Linux on Laptops Database Both sites are good for mobile linux information on the whole. Also, you could look to specialist user groups based on your laptop if you are having trouble finding hardware specific info. If you have a Dell, check out the Yahoo Dell Linux Laptop user group. Thinkpad? Look to the Thinkpad Linux user group. If the hardware is older (2+ years old), it's probably well supported. Even the new Centrino buggers have drivers now. Only place I could see an issue would be if you have 1) a widescreen display model - something like a Sony PCG-TR series laptop - XFree86 doesn't support 1280x768 resolutions (there are commercial X servers that do however) 2) specialty buttons, such as the Vaio's PI-buttons, an Apple laptop, etc. But there are projects out there to remedy these, and for the most part they are pretty mature and work well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evan Posted March 21, 2004 Author Share Posted March 21, 2004 I really wonder where the optimizations for battery life come into play. On a 4460mAh [66Whr] battery, Windows saw about 2.5-3 hours of Starcraft playing (running display, decent CPU usage, 2 less taps from brightest display setting, constant CD usage) back in the day. It's a year later, and Linux, running Starcraft (and dnetc RC-72), same settings, sees 4-4.5 hours or so. How?:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: evan: You can also look to these sites for info on specific models of laptops: - TuxMobile's Laptop Database - Linux on Laptops Database Both sites are good for mobile linux information on the whole. Also, you could look to specialist user groups based on your laptop if you are having trouble finding hardware specific info. If you have a Dell, check out the Yahoo Dell Linux Laptop user group. Thinkpad? Look to the Thinkpad Linux user group. If the hardware is older (2+ years old), it's probably well supported. Even the new Centrino buggers have drivers now. Only place I could see an issue would be if you have 1) a widescreen display model - something like a Sony PCG-TR series laptop - XFree86 doesn't support 1280x768 resolutions (there are commercial X servers that do however) 2) specialty buttons, such as the Vaio's PI-buttons, an Apple laptop, etc. But there are projects out there to remedy these, and for the most part they are pretty mature and work well. thank you so much, splatnix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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