What is the best Slackware-based distro for my laptop?

[Pogeymanz]

I have an HP Compaq Presario v5000; 512RAM; 1.5 Ghz Celeron M.

I basically want the Slackware-based distro that has the best hardware support. Some distros just don't like laptops, I think. I also have an evil Broadcom card.

Thanks!

[chippy99]

Why not ask this question on a slackware forum ?

[Antman]

I have an HP Compaq Presario v5000; 512RAM; 1.5 Ghz Celeron M.

I basically want the Slackware-based distro that has the best hardware support. Some distros just don't like laptops, I think. I also have an evil Broadcom card.

Thanks!
Check out Zenwalk 5 beta. It is looking really good so far.

[a2d2]

..try Zenwalk 5, itś fast (startup 20-30 sec). best with DSL, not slow, using Modem 56K, but you can't connect, if you be european, using ISDN Cards. ISDN is not implemented... (same as slack)
package-manager is not as easy as ubuntu does. but V 5.2 will include easier netpkg . synaptic is not included.

overseas greets....

[Antman]

FYI that ZenWalk 5.2 beta and ZenLive 5.2Alpha (liveCD version)
are available to test. So far the beta is very sweet on my laptop.:guitar:
The ZenLive 5.2 alpha (http://support.zenwalk.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=16546&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a)supports USB install with persistence. I'll try that out hopefully tonight.:KS

[saulgoode]

Slackware is the best Slackware-based distro. :)

That being said, I am quite happy with the way VectorLinux runs on my Compaq Presario (an older model than yours though).

[cardinals_fan]

SLAX, without a doubt.

[andrew.46]

Hi:


I have an HP Compaq Presario v5000; 512RAM; 1.5 Ghz Celeron M.

I basically want the Slackware-based distro that has the best hardware support. Some distros just don't like laptops, I think. I also have an evil Broadcom card.

Thanks!

Well I also have a Broadcom card and I am running it quite successfully with Slackware 12.1 and kernel 2.6.24.5-smp. The Broadcom card is:


root@skamandros/home/andrew# lspci | grep Broadcom
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)

As I am using xfce I also installed wicd for a network manager. So it can be done :-).

Andrew

[Bachstelze]

Why run something "Slackware-based" when you can run the real thing?

[WalmartSniperLX]

Why run something "Slackware-based" when you can run the real thing?

Same reason to why Ubuntu users use Ubuntu instead of Debian :P

[Antman]

same reason to why ubuntu users use ubuntu instead of debian :p
+1

[factotum218]

Zenwalk. Just pretend you can't see dolphins and it's still called Minislack.

Seriously....zen...walk?

Otherwise straight up Slackware.