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I'm running Debian on an IBM with the centrino, works great.  I'm
using it to send this email even.


Thus spake Preston Boyington (PBoyington at polyengineering.com):

>  wrote:
> > Debian craps its pants every time I try and put it on my laptop, so I
> > gave up ad went Fedora.  I just upped to FC3 Final yesterday,
> > and WOW!!!
> > is it faster or what?
> > 
> > I can't believe how much faster it is than FC2.  Any guesses
> > as to why?
> > 
> > --Jerald
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 11:58 -0500, Brandon Colbert wrote:
> >> Wow!! Debian is faster than Mandrake/Redhat/Fedora. It is great for
> >> low memory machines. I'm switching.
> >> 
> >> Thanks dudes! I will order the book today.
> 
> what laptop and which install process are you using?  I recently had problems with an old Gateway 1150 (?) while installing Sarge and wound up using Lilo instead of Grub as my boot manager.  I haven't had time (nor desire really) to figure out why lilo worked when grub didn't, but my friend is very happy with his Debian laptop (which is what matters).
> 
> after getting more involved with debian i honestly don't think i will jump to another distro for my personal needs.
> 
> -
> Preston
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