OK Johnny, I believe I'm ready for Gentoo. I hope to improve the performance of the P266 Laptop I have. I have basic DSL this means a very long down load. I'll slap yall around in DoD but that's a horse of a different bandwidth. I have a CD burner now, WooHoo, but the netBSD download took about 16 hours :-( Any possibility of getting CD's with Gentoo from someone in exchange for blank CD's? Sam. Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:31:32 -0600, Erik Anderson > <erik at andersonfam.org> wrote: > >> Jeff Nelson wrote: >> >>> 1. I am not tied to a particular distribution and am willing to try >>> another. Recommendations accepted. >> >> >> Well OK - I'll offer a recommendation! I just finished instaling >> linux on my laptop - a Dell Inspiron 8500. I went through Redhat, >> Mandrake, and Debian with no success. Most of my problems were >> caused by the broadcom bcm4400 NIC - I'm assumming that this is the >> same chipset that your HP uses. >> >> On a whim, one afternoon, I decided to try Gentoo. Lo and behold, >> *everything* worked. Everything. I was so impressed by their distro >> that I'm starting to migrate several other boxes to gentoo. > > > Me too! And I've put it on two dell laptops too. Smokes on my old P2 > - 400. > Gentoo rocks! > >> >> One thing to keep in mind is that Gentoo is not an *quick* distro to >> install by any stretch of the imagination. This is mainly because it >> is designed to download and compile itself from source. Gentoo does, >> however, provide excellent documentation on their website ( >> www.gentoo.org ). >> >> I'd be glad to help out if you have any questions. >> > > I also can help - but the gentoo forums should be your first stop - > some real good guys/gals there - I've always been able to find answers > to my questions on the forums. > >> -Erik >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list