Vista to Unix


I am considering a move from Vista to a Unix-variant on my laptop. I
have been quite happy with my vista install with a few nagging
exceptions. It is those exceptions that cause me to look elsewhere.

I have used Ubuntu (7.10) on this laptop before, and I have been quite
displeased about its shoddy wireless networking and ACPI sleep
support. It was often that the wireless networking would simply NOT
work after waking up. Also, sometimes the sleep function would
essentially freeze the machine before it even went to sleep.

What I am looking for is something to solve those problems primarily.
I am willing to consider FreeBSD 7, Slackware, or even Fedora if it is
reasonably better than Ubuntu in this regard.

I do not care for NetworkManager, as the version included with 7.10
seemed to be an attempt to produce something that Windows does fairly
well, but make it actually suck.

My laptop is an Acer Aspire 5570, it uses Intel's video and wireless,
I believe it is a 945 based chipset, but I am not 100% sure on this.

Any thoughts on this matter would be appreciated.

With Regards,
Jeffrey Drake.
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