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Linux in Government: You Can Use the Desktop on a Laptop Now (Linux Journal)

[Posted July 26, 2005 by ris]

Linux Journal takes a look at running desktop Linux on a laptop. "I spent the better part of two days trying a variety of distributions. Before people start writing comments about how much better their distributions run than the one I chose, let me say I played no favorites. I wanted performance and I got it with Ubuntu. Contrary to what some of you might believe, it's not my favorite Linux distro. It simply performed the best in this case."

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Posted Jul 26, 2005 16:37 UTC (Tue) by swalton (guest, #31272) [Link]

This is not really an article about running Linux on a laptop, but very specifically about running a distribution on a ThinkPad which supports the function keys, the pointer device, and so on. Still interesting, though.

The best thing in this article is the closing paragraphs about Windows XP.

Linux in Government: You Can Use the Desktop on a Laptop Now (Linux Journal)

Posted Jul 27, 2005 12:23 UTC (Wed) by hingo (subscriber, #14792) [Link]

So he spent several days testing various desktop distributions for a laptop but neglected suse and apparently also mandrake/iva? (Mandriva has had the Thinkpad programs included in the base distribution for several years, so if he had tried Mandriva I'm sure it would show in the article.)

Please people, if you're gonna write about desktop linux, don't start with Red Hat. And if you do, you shouldn't report it as a major discovery that some other distro is better (for a desktop). This is the company that only lately recommended Windows for desktop use! I'm sure they make the best servers to run an Oracle, but they just don't see the desktop as very important.

Linux in Government: You Can Use the Desktop on a Laptop Now (Linux Journal)

Posted Jul 28, 2005 13:06 UTC (Thu) by holstein (subscriber, #6122) [Link]

I'm sure they make the best servers to run an Oracle

Well, from the guy who just took too-much-time to trim down a RHEL4 installation, with every packages unchecked at installation time, just to manage to take out stuff like printer support, Samba client and other stuff like sound support, I'm not even sure of that.

Why do I have to cleanup so much stuff after an install where I unselect every package, I don't know. And before someone suggest it, no, another distribution was not an option.