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David Bell wrote: > On Monday 07 July 2008 11:26:43 Viv Griffin wrote: > >> David Bell wrote: >> > > >>> Have you tried SuSE v11? Best "works out of the box" desktop distro that >>> I've tried in a decade so far. >>> >> Have just ordered an Acer Aspire 2920 - do you think suse v11 would be >> compatible with that ? It comes with vista so, will need to reinstall. >> > > Hello Viv, > > Well worth a try. You will be given the choice of auto or manual install > which includes laptop packages. I chose the auto-install and apart from > selecting to do the partitioning myself, the rest worked like a dream. The > YAST package system is very smooth and offers a nice selection of optional > repositories containing plenty of goodies. KDE 4 is offered as an > alternative installation to KDE 3 and Gnome. > > I found it to be a very "polished" distro and a refreshing change (ducks!) to > using Debian and its variants for the past 3 or 4 years. Yes, It's > propriatory, but the nearest I've seen to a real, no hassle MS replacement. > > > > Thanks David - I will definitely give SuSE 11 a try - it sounds ideal for the new > laptop. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html