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Posted: Feb. 22 2006,18:52 QUOTE
I guess I rather try Debian Linux.

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Posted: Feb. 24 2006,17:29 QUOTE
I take that back. Debian is too old (or lagging far behind in development), e.g. Python 2.1 instead of 2.4 and the supplied windows managers (Gnome and KDE) are even less well developped than Win98SE with Unofficial SP. They are somewhere in between Win 3.11 and Win95 in look and feel IMO. Furthermore, Debian has almost no active support. (Who still uses a mailinglist nowadays? All the other Linuxes use a webforum for community support.)

The only Linux that behaved "normal" on my laptop was Ubuntu (LiveCD version). However, the HD version is as hungry for GBs as Windows. So I would have to partition my HD very, very carefully and tweak the Windows partition so it will keep running fast and efficient (well, as efficient as Windows can be).

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Posted: Feb. 24 2006,17:51 QUOTE
You are beginning to learn some things, but keep on researching. Everything is not as it seems at first glance!

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Posted: Feb. 25 2006,06:31 QUOTE
You can get newer Debian packages by repointing the line in yout /etc/apt/sources.list to go to Debian "experimental" or Debian "testing" instead of Debian "Stable" if you desire.

Just make sure to do an

apt-get update

to get a refreshed list of available packages.
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Posted: Feb. 25 2006,08:45 QUOTE
I'm sorry, that is not going to work, because this laptop is not yet connected to the internet. I have to buy a PCMIA wireless network card, an Apple AirPort extreme card and a wireless router to enable that. That is a bit too pricy at the moment.

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