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Hello all, I just thought I'd share my problem and experience so far with my new HP/Compaq nx6110 and Ubuntu 5.04 / Fedora Core 3. I gave Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog a try for a couple of days but found that debian on a laptop used as a serious workstation just doesn't work. It found all the hardware just fine and worked great for general surfing the web etc but trackpad behaviour was quirky and installing pptp and perl modules for work was a pain. Next I tried Fedora Core 3, the installation was nicer and again it found all the hardware just fine (although I haven't tried the wireless or winmodem yet, I assume neither will work easily) and allowed me to choose what was installed. Installing pptp was fine and synaptics config programs are already installed so I can configure my trackpad properly, shame it still insists on faking a middle-button when I tap to click, but I have pretty much given in and decided to turn off tap-to-click. Other than that it seems to work sweetly, oddly both redhat and ubuntu ship with pretty much the same desktop look and feel. You can hardly tell the difference when running except for menu layout and applications installed A. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html