Best free / downloadable distro for Toshiba Tablet PC

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Friday, December 26, 2003 11:08 pm, Leo J Mauler wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:14:11 -0600 Jonathan Hutchins
> <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> writes:

> > I like SuSE better than RedHat or Mandrake.

> SuSE does a downloadable version?

They don't build it into ISO's - although it's possible that with some script 
tweaking you could do it yourself.  You can either download all the RPM's and 
the installer script and run it on a local network share, or you can do an 
FTP install, which is what I did.  Running from ftp.novell.com it took about 
two hours, not much different from what Mandrake took from 3 CD's.

(You can get the non-Intel versions as iso's.)

> And given that there is a downloadable SuSE, there may be resource
> concerns in a laptop, especially an older laptop (I have no idea how old
> a Toshiba Tablet PC is, I just have a very old Toshiba Satellite Pro
> myself).

I put it on a Winbook Si - 800MHz, 9G disk, 128M RAM.  It looks like it takes 
about the same space as Mandrake with the same packages selected, but that 
only makes sense.  The packages that they select by default are better 
integrated than with Mandrake.  I really feel like Mandrake's gone down hill 
lately, as has RedHat.  I like SuSE pretty well so far, a few strange bits 
but everything appers to work somehow - not something I can say of Mandrake.

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