[ltp] Xandros

jeff linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 2 Jan 2005 18:42:53 -0500


On Sunday 02 January 2005 5:35, SOTL wrote:
> On Sunday 02 January 2005 09:14 am, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 13:49, SOTL wrote:
> > > 1. What is the difference between Xandos, SuSE, and Mandrake as far a
> > > package content? Does Xandros have the same basic packages?
> >
> > Don't you like Debian?
>
> Last time I tried Debian it was impossible to configure for a non geek.
> Still have the disk somewhere. Still would not have a clue in how to
> configure it as the first thing one did need to know is what the
> specifications are of the equipment. Now there is an interesting point. How
> does one obtain the specifications to the internal parts of a Thinkpad. No,
> simply to difficult. Mandrake is much easer to configure.
>
> Frank

Try Mepis then. It is the first Debian based distro that I have seen that 
correctly detected the hardware on my 600. All I had to do was download the 
alsamixer to set the volumes, and everything was happy.

Jeff