I am a student and was looking for a free or low cost os to replace my windows 98 instillation so i looked to linux. I have tried may distruibutions but none really took my fancy or ran too slow / had problems with my laptop but when i tried debian testing it worked great!
Thank you debian!
One question though, NO versions of ubuntu install ok on my thinkpad but all debians do - why?
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A BIG THANK YOU FOR DEBIAN
its not just ubuntu, its other distros too. Ubuntu (version 5 i think - the non graphical installer one hang at 86% detecting hardware) and the newest one hung at about 75% installed.
SuSE could detect either the cdrom (with irqpoll) or the sound card (without irqpoll) but not both at the same time.
FC hates the gfx card and mandriva has issues with acpi as apparenty the ACPI in the bios is screwed and needs flashing. howeveer, to flash you need a 100% charged battery pack. My laptop is circa 2000 and the laptop is long gone and the cost of getting a new one is more than the machine is worth.
It also hattes XP , 2000 and NT4 presumably for the same reason
In short, it hates all oses apart from:
PC Linux OS
Debian Etch (possibly sid am upgrading now)
Windows 98
PC BSD (for some reason, net, open and free dont work but this does)
SuSE could detect either the cdrom (with irqpoll) or the sound card (without irqpoll) but not both at the same time.
FC hates the gfx card and mandriva has issues with acpi as apparenty the ACPI in the bios is screwed and needs flashing. howeveer, to flash you need a 100% charged battery pack. My laptop is circa 2000 and the laptop is long gone and the cost of getting a new one is more than the machine is worth.
It also hattes XP , 2000 and NT4 presumably for the same reason
In short, it hates all oses apart from:
PC Linux OS
Debian Etch (possibly sid am upgrading now)
Windows 98
PC BSD (for some reason, net, open and free dont work but this does)