[ltp] Re: Which distro will have the best ThinkPad (T60) support?

Aaron Mulder linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:15:29 -0400


On 9/27/06, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
> > SMART package manager, which to me is like Ubuntu's on steroids.
>
> What does that give you that I'm not getting with apt, dpkg, and
> synaptic?

SuSE.

And if you wonder why that's relevant, refer to the thread "[PATCH]
2.6.17: Unload disks heads before powering down", which discusses data
corruption and premature hardware failure, if you don't manually
configure a bunch of stuff that SuSE does for you.  :)

Thanks,
     Aaron