[ale] vFAQ: Good distributions on Dell D610 laptops

[johnmills at speakeasy.net (John Mills)]

Oops -

That's a 'Latitude'. Sorry.

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, John Mills wrote:

> ALErs -
> 
> Which Linux distributions drop smoothly onto Dell D610 Inspiron laptops?
> I have noticed that my live-CD Knoppix fails to start up XFree (but
> RedHat-7.3 handles it just fine -- Go figure.). Also, it seems to have the
> AC'97 based audio - possibly modem also - that some setups seem to handle
> much better than others.
> 
> I had excellent results with SuSE-9.3 on my Fry's laptop, including its 
> AC'97 modem, so my inclination would be to go with SuSE again.
> 
> Suggestions welcome. Thanks.
> 
>  - Mills