[ltp] Best distribution for an A30P = ?

[SOTL]

Bill Sheppard wrote:

>As you mentioned, a controversial topic, but I've been installing SuSE
>(9.0, 9.3, and 10.0) on various laptops and desktops and have generally
>been very pleased, both with initial install results and the
>availability of third-party packages and support if everything doesn't work.
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I have OpenSuSE 10.1 installed on my desktop and it works great there. 
The issue is I have not been able to install it on my A30P Thinkpad and 
get full operation of the Thinkpad. As far as installing the soft modem 
that is why I bought SuSE 10.1 commercial. If I can not get SuSE or 
Fedora or Mandriva to install I will simply keep Mandrake 10.1 on the 
box until the issue is resolved.

>I don't you'll find any installation which handles the softmodem well,
>but it's pretty manageable by following the directions at
>http://www.linmodems.org.
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>Bill
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>SOTL wrote:
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>>Hi All
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>>I know that asking which is the best distribution is an easy way to
>>start a flame war but that is exactly what I need to know.
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>>I need to know which of the following three Linux distributions for an
>>IBM A30P Thinkpad.
>>SuSE 10.1
>>Fedora Core 5
>>Mandriva  2006
>>I have exactly no interest in any other distribution, especially
>>Debian, haven tried most on my desk top and failing to find anything
>>that out weighs the disadvantage of their not being one of the
>>excepted standards in the engineering and scientific technical world.
>>To emphasize Ubuto is a great distribution but for serious technical
>>types either Scientific Linux or Biological Linus would be a much more
>>desirable choice. Since I do not travel in either of those circles
>>Fedora or SuSE for me is a better choice depending on which I can make
>>work on the laptop easiest. If neither one of these is doable then how
>>difficult is it to install Mandriva 2006. If one can not install any
>>one of these three easily then I will stick with my current
>>distribution of Mandrake 10.1 which is now 3 years old.
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>>I have downloaded and installed Fedora Core 5 and installed it with
>>results that have been forgotten since I did not keep records. I do
>>know I was not impressed or I would not have moved on to SuSE.
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>>For SuSE I have attempted to the commercial version and am not
>>impressed. I do not have modem, eathernet, or wireless. Eathernet and
>>wireless are understandable since I did not have access to either at
>>time of installation but the issues with the modem exactly mirror a
>>bug report I made on OpenSuSE 10.1 Beta 9 which was that a A30P has a
>>win modem and the software for this modem was not being installed. I
>>received a email back from the SuSE development team informing me that
>>the win modem software is priperiatory   and would only be included in
>>the commercial version that was the reason for the purchase of the
>>commercial version. This does work under Mandrake 10.1 but then there
>>are many more recent developments particularly in the realm of
>>networking that were not developed at that level.
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>>Mandriva 2006 commercial I have exactly no knowledge of.
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>>Thanks for everyone consideration.
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>>SOTL
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