Subj : Re: Best distro for Laptop
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Dan Boline
Date : Sun Aug 22 2004 03:18 pm

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:

> I have a Toshiba 2595XDVD laptop with a 30 GB drive.
> It currently runs Windows 98.  I use Fedora on my
> server but that might not be the best distro for the
> laptop.  The laptop is used for flight planning with
> Flitesoft, a Windoze program.
> 
> Which distros support WINE well?
> 
> Which distros support dual boot and mounted FAT file system well?
> 
> I could either go the WINE route or dual boot.
> 
> Which distros should I look at?

        I'm currently running Mandrake 10.0 on a Toshiba 1415-S173.  On the 
whole it works well, though I have had some problems when installing
NVIDIA's
geForce 2 3d acceleration drivers (props to
http://www.cnpbagwell.com/toshiba.html for helpful clues).  
        If you absolutely need Windoze, you can certainly try running Wine by
itself, but be forewarned, it is not an easy application to configure, and
if it isn't properly configured it can be very, very bad.  More to the
point, with the freely available, open source version of wine, there's
little guaruntee that a particular application will install and run, and to
the best of my knowledge none of the distributions make any independent
efforts to improve this.  You seem to need support for a specific
application, and in that case it might be useful to check out code-weavers
CrossOverOffice product http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/.
        Good luck

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