Which laptop?

[pmpatrick]

I've seen several reports that Dell is going to start selling preloaded linux laptops:

 

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8436091466.html

 

Given Dell's stated approach in the above article, you could probably get most major distros to run on one of those dell linux laptops without too much trouble.

[riseringseeker]

There nothing wrong with either Mandriva or Fedora. I am not sure why they would say that, unless Fedora is what they currently have. Mandriva has a better gui tool section for setup, but both work just fine.

 

Actually they have a selection of distributions to choose from, their home-rolled RH based Emperor, Fedora, RHEL, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, and they list Mandrake 10.1. In my latest exchange with them they said:

 

While we have done plenty of systems with Mandrake in the past, for a

while there in 2004-5 they fell on hard times, and since then we have

had so very few requests for Mandriva that, quite honestly, it has not

made business sense to spin up to support another RPM-based distro.

Fedora Core 6 is now so solid that many old time Mandrake users are back

to Fedora.

 

So, Mandrake/Mandriva was/is on hard times? Fedora was not so solid not so long ago?

 

Having only ever used Mdv, and played (very little) with a live Knoppix CD, I am not sure, but am leaning toward having Fedora, and maybe Ubuntu (though I am not a fan of the gnome desktop - for me Kubuntu might be much better) installed. One good thing is I won't be stuck with Vista, though I can have XP on it if I wish, which I just may.