Re: Vista to Unix
- From: General Schvantzkopf <schvantzkopf@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:31:17 -0600
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:00:26 -0800, Jeffrey Drake wrote:
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.
Try Fedora 8, the wireless networking works pretty well with Intel WiFI.
Sleep support is an area where Linux is fairly weak, it's a kernel
problem not a distro problem. Fedora 8 uses the latest kernel so it has
the best chance of working. I don't know which kernel Ubuntu is using
now, if it's a 2.6.23 kernel then Fedora isn't likely to work any better,
if it's 2.6.22 then F8 should be better.
.
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