I have been running OpenSuse on six different laptop models from Dell
and Sony for 5 years now, and usually could get both wireless and
basic graphics to work without much trouble (never had to try to use
3D or anything similar). I use it extensively for work, which for me
is scientific research. I even successfully supported two opensuse
laptops for psychologists that collaborate with us who have never seen
anything but Windows before that. So it can definitely run on laptops
;-)
Myrosia
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Mark Misulich
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:00 -0500, James George wrote:
PCLinuxOS (or 'Pee-kloss,' as my Father calls it) is an excellent distribution, especially the 'Gnome Edition.' Very crisp and shiny, if that's what you're looking for. It definitely works great with little-to-no modifications/tweaking required.
However, it is FAR from being the only distribution of Linux that will run on a Laptop. In the realm of laptops, I have a Dell Inspiron, a Gateway and a Toshiba Satellite; various flavors of Linux run just fine on all of them. These include: Ubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu Studio, Mint, Fedora 11 (and later 12), PCLOS Gnome Edition, Sabayon and others. They have all run fine on the various laptops. I've yet to put openSUSE on a laptop, although we do have three openSUSE servers at work. Therefore I can't speak for openSUSE on laptops.
As a sidebar, I highly recommend Ubuntu Studio on a laptop to those who are in need of a robust portable recording studio, graphics design or video editing workstation. All the tools you need in a single (visually appealing) place.
--James L. George
-----Original Message----- From: lynn [mailto:lynn@steve-ss.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:58 AM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Linux on a single computer
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 20:41:32 Anton Aylward wrote:
Brian K. White said the following on 12/15/2009 02:16 PM:
We still don't know what the heck you were asking! Ask a meaningless question and you can only get meaningless answers. John actually tried to be nice and explain the problem and you still didn't help. What is the question?
Reading "between the lines" and considering Lynn's comments, I suspect she simply doesn't believe people use Linux. She's said she's never seen anyone using it and her efforts to run it at work via a USB stick met with connectivity problems.
I think she wants reassurance.
the answers have been excellent and helped a lot. Certainly several people have aired their views. Views which are not available locally to me. Reassurance that I install it and it works would be nice. With wired connections on a network opensuse is fine. It works well and Yast is excellent. What it doesn't do is work on laptops. It looks from below that PCLinuxOS is the only one that does. L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Hi, I have run opensuse on three laptops, serially. It works fine on laptops. I have tried various other distros, and some have pre-installed drivers for the wlan that makes for an easier laptop installation. But I have always managed to get the wireless working with a little effort to find help in the opensuse forum or this mailing list for every version from 10.1 to 11.1. Opensuse has more options available to the user and is a premier distro.
Mark
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