[Lugstuff] Ubuntu on a laptop?

[Thomas Gallen]

My primary distribution of choice is Gentoo/Funtoo but I'd be happy to
help you out with Ubuntu if nobody else volunteers. Additionally, I've
had experience with Red Hat (before Fedora), Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and
a few of their offspring (Mint, Centos, etc). While my experience with
OpenSUSE is limited, I agree with the other poster that their driver
support is quite decent (from what I remember). 

Thomas

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 04:44:22PM -0500, Stephen Wehrenberg wrote:
> Sorry to broadcast like this but couldn't find another way to contact 
> anyone in LUG.
> 
> I live in Bowie, and I'm looking for a Ubuntu "journeyman."
> 
> I have a couple of old laptops, a Dell with a Celeron processor at 2.6 
> gHz and a Gateway with  AMD Athlon 64 4000+ at 2.59 gHz.  I would love 
> to load Ubuntu on one and take Linux for a spin.  No problem getting the 
> OS on there (I have a Ubuntu 10.10 boot disk) but getting all the 
> drivers loaded in and usable seems to be just outside my experience 
> envelope.  Linux is not Windows, or DOS, or even CP/M!
> 
> So I'm in the hunt for someone who wouldn't mind a little side job, for 
> which I would be willing to pay a reasonable price, getting one of these 
> up and fully functioning.  Then I can play around and maybe even learn 
> something.
> 
> If that worked out, I also have an ASUS netbook with their wild 
> implementation of Linux on board that I can't do a thing with and which 
> seems no longer supported.  I tried Ubuntu on that, couldn't find 
> drivers (my common problem); gave up on that, put Windows on it, which 
> ground it to a halt of course, then reloaded the proprietary version of 
> Linux.  It works, in that it has old versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, 
> and OpenOffice, but the interface is all ASUS and impenetrable ... I 
> can't even update what's on it.   I'd kind of like to get that up with 
> Ubuntu on board, as well.
> 
> So any pointers to someone who would take this on would be appreciated.  
> I tried the Geek Squad, but they tell me they don't support any Linux work.
> 
> Collegially,
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
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> 
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