[wplug] Distro selection assistance

[Nathan Marcus]

Well with Slackware there was NO support for either the network card I
had, the floppy drive, or the cd drive.  Thus, no way of installing.

My particular Vaio is an oddity for me as a laptop because it is all
metal on the outside, and the whole thing is a heatsink.  During the
gentoo compile it didnt fail, but was close to the sensation of going
into a shower that is a wee to hot.  Except, of course, on your hands
and lap (guys, think of the children).

Made it through the gentoo compile and every time i wanted to use
portage, it was like a hot shower.  No-go

On 2/18/06, Juan Zuluaga <jz31416 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> " I tried slackware, suse, fedora
> core, mepis, and gentoo (lol)."
>
> Would you mind telling what were the problems with
> Slackware? besides the infinite time to compile, were
> there other problems with gentoo?
>
>
> > Your main limitation is RAM, not CPU or disk space.
>
>
> Indeed -- but RAM for an old odd laptop can be
> ridiculously expensive  :(  .
>
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