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Arch Linux 0.8 Voodoo - R50 main tryout tool, T43 main linux dev box, X20, X21, 240X(dual boot XPP), 770X, 570, 570E.

Vector 5.8 SOHO - T42(dual boot Vista), X23.

Lunar (Moose Drool) - X24(dual boot XPP).

Knoppix 5 hd install - T23(dual boot Vista).

Elive 1.5/PC BSD/Desktop BSD/Ark - T23(quad-boot play tool).

Solaris 7 X86 - 760ED.

DSL - 760E/XL.

Yellow Dog, Aurora, Solaris 10, Mac OS X -T/L, mOnOwall/slickwall, Cisco IOS, Slack, Deb, HPUX 11i, Gentoo, DSL and several others installed and maintained througout my kindom.

I'm a Unix Sys Admin for HP, what else would I be doing in my free time....besides posting? I duh no either.....

Always and forever Slackware.

That said I don't have access to any of my CDs so at the
moment openSUSE 10.2 is on the T21.
Installed via InstLux which was a bit scary considering all the
info I've read of people accidently installing Linux over their
existing Windows.

I so much wanted to try my Solaris Express Developer Edition
but it never made it past displaying the SunOS kernel version.
I guess 512MB RAM isn't enough?

Marc

Is the best ever. I have 10.3 and 10.2 installed on t42 and a31p

With the recent release of PCLinuxOS MinIMe 2008, I have now switched back to PCLinuxOS. I now proclaim PCLinuxOS the top of the heap. (On my hardware at least .

Been using Ubuntu 7.10 on my Acer and TP for about 2 weeks now..

It's been a very pleasant surprise. Unlike the dozen or so other times I've tried Linux this time the sleep/standby works flawlessly.

And a laptop without standby is useless.

The restricted driver set-up is handy too. Especially in setting up the wireless.

I've logged into Windows maybe once in the past 2 weeks...

On my Acer I installed Suse 10.3 also.. Nice, but not as user friendly as Ubuntu, and the standby doesn't work 100% either...

Debian Etch on 600X and T23. I have tried:

1. [censored] small linux, puppy linux, ubuntu 7.10 on 600X and was not happy.
2. ubuntu 7.10, suse on T23 but found debian etch to be the most stable one with less problems.

I have discs for PCOS linux and xandros, will be trying them on these machines sometime soon.

dual booting winxp and ubuntu 7.10 on my x60. working quite well so far.

pretty much everything working out of the box. extra fixes got the middle scroll button working (though scrolling left or right actually sends a "back" or "forward" command to firefox), as well as all my logitech mouse buttons (yes, ALL buttons configurable, especially on my MX Revolution). dual screen (with different resolutions using extended screen) works too, but requires a bit of fiddling around everytime i insert the x60 onto a dock and boot the computer.

i've been holding back on actually sticking with linux until now, and the reason is that enough of the above mentioned things are working now.

debian pure on my t23, and my home desktop. mepis on my fiances laptop. i use to use mandrake (back before it was mandriva) and i wont use ubuntu becuase of the way it rolls out distros, basically they pull out a full set of the apt repository every 6 months and patch off of it, this breaks debian compatibility, no other debian based distro breaks compatibility. besides Mepis is more user friendly and nicer to look at then ubuntu.
honestly one of my favorite look-and-feel distros is Elive, it is also debian based and uses enlightenment WM.

I'm using Gentoo Linux on T42p.

Ran gentoo on my t42 for the longest time, but I let it go... I started travelling a lot and gentoo took way too much of my time to maintain.

So I installed Linux Mint and I'm a happy tux-er once more!