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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptopsThe Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptopsPosted Jun 4, 2008 6:49 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops by danielpf Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops I too was surprised and disappointed Mandriva was not tested. After all it is a distro that positions itself for desktop use by normal people, and the last versions IMHO succeed better there than any other I have tried. I haven't installed the latest version on a laptop, but 2008.0 worked on an IBM thinkpad T23 with only minor glitches: no sound after suspend/resume, and the default X display depth of 24 bits did not work with video players, but going down to 16 bits solved it, and 16 bits is better anyway for such an older, slower machine. T23 does not have built-in wlan, so cannot comment on that. A cheap Bluetooth USB dongle was recognized by the system and usable with KDE's Bluetooth tools. I also got a Huawei 3G dongle working, but this required a "mode switch" program (from http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/) to be installed, so goes a bit beyond what can be achieved with mouse-based configuration tools.
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