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Thursday, 18. May 2006, 06:58:09

It isn't really the newest hardware, but since searching for feedback about how Linux runs on the Acer Extensa 3000 notebook returns virtually no relevant information, I thought I'd do a minimal documentation about my setup - Linux has now been happily running on the hardware for several years.

So there you go: Linux on the Acer Extensa 3000 is a happy penguin.

The directory listing has more technical details, and dmesg, ver_linux and friends are updated to the latest reboot (which generally occurs only at kernel upgrade) - and so is the kernel .config file.

opera and x.org 7a penguin on the slug

Which Linux would you recommend on a laptop?
More importantly, which Linux displays the best Opera performance?

By dantesoft, # 18. May 2006, 07:54:41

Which Linux would you recommend on a laptop?

The reply is anything but easy, and depends on lots of factors: last-but-not-least how much you want it to work out-of-the-box and specifically which laptop, i.e. which hardware, you want to install Linux on.

SUSE 9.3 has been a happy choice for me, I know people very happy with Ubuntu, and Gentoo seems to run very well on laptops too. Each distro has its ups and downs. If you are more specific about which laptop you are thinking about, I could come up with a less generic reply

You can find some valuable pointers at Linux on Laptops and at TuxMobil.

which Linux displays the best Opera performance?

This doesn't really matter - but I would reccomend to have Qt installed, so you can use the shared builds. Intergation of shared builds with the desktop environment is still better at this time - it just *looks better*

By csant, # 18. May 2006, 09:26:08

Thanks for the links, just as I feared, there's a lot to read about.

My in-the-mail laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1300. The main concern is ACPI support (since I need the battery to run the longest possible) and drivers.

By dantesoft, # 18. May 2006, 10:22:37

I don't have the hardware myself, so I can only report back stuff that you might have found yourself already - but from a quick look it seems like there are no specific known issues with that laptopo model, so you should be safe installing any fairly recent distro. At least Gentoo seems to have no trouble with ACPI on the machine, and only a SUSE user reports trouble with it. My guess (to take cum grano salis) is that it was more a single issue, rather than a general problem. But I might be wrong.

Let us know how it went, when you get to install Linux on it

By csant, # 18. May 2006, 17:03:56

Will do. ETA-1 day. But I'll be wandering this weekend, so next week I'll post something

By dantesoft, # 18. May 2006, 17:43:35

Ubuntu!

ACPI OK in log (video, power/sleep button, lid switch, thermal/PCI interrupts)

$ acpi -V
     Battery 1: charged, 100%
     Thermal 1: ok, 47.0 degrees C
  AC Adapter 1: on-line

Drivers KO: video only 1024x768 for now, no wireless connection, just Ethernet and Modem (latter not tested).

Benchmarks pending.

By dantesoft, # 24. May 2006, 10:09:32

and Modem

I wouldn't get my hopes too high on that one... But I wouldn't worry about the rest

By csant, # 24. May 2006, 18:41:28

I enjoy Fedora!

By Contrid, # 20. February 2007, 09:23:02

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