srinath wrote on 04/21/13 at 19:10:28:Yonuh: I am a professional unix engineer and have been for 20 years. My experience with this whole puppy linux and what not has been nothing short of awful. If its a lap top, I now a days dont want to run anything like unix on it. It somehow never fails to fail.
Of course if its a throwaway do what you want to it ...
Cool.
Srinath.
I've got a modern less then a year ago manufactured to my specs Laptop that runs Linux with no issue at all. All items for my laptop have drivers available in Linux. Then again it's not a POS off the shelf HP,Toshiba, Gateway, etc, etc....... It's a custom built to my specs machine based off a clevo P170EM chassis.
I dual boot with Ubuntu 10.04LTS all the time on this laptop. The reason I have not moved beyond Ubuntu 10.04LTS is I hate the direction they have gone with the GUI, I know you can replace most of it with others like cinnamon and such, but I'll stick with the older Gnome that I've grown to love over the years. I use Linux as much as I do Winblows. It just depends on what I'm working on at the time as to which OS I'm booted into Mainly on the Laptop I do my Android O/S coding in Linux and some other coding as well. There are also other things I do in Linux with the Laptop as everyday things but find some thing such as gaming more viable in Winblows then in Linux right now, but I see that is starting to change finally and I might be able to dump Winblows for good in the next year or 2. I've been running servers as well for years online at colo sites and I use mainly CentOS on those, but here the past 2 years I have tried WinBlows 2008R2 as a server for my house, but my server MB is starting to have issues so when I rebuild it, I'm going back to Linux like I'm used to for running servers. I just wish I could lay my hands on a at least 1 fully managed decent gigabyte switch with 10gb up-links on it for way less then $1500 to support my network in the house. You would be surprised at how much bandwidth streaming 1080P movies takes when your doing it to 4 tv's at one time. My Raid supports the speed no problem it's the network that's the bottle neck at this time. I just can't afford to get any switches with 10GB up-links on them.
R.F.