Robins blogg

My Dell D830 laptop arrived with FreeDOS supplied. Dell didn’t install it as the default. My guess is few people use it. An obvious question is which OS (i.e. Linux) version to run. I’ve been a Mandriva fan ever since I put it into my CDROM drive sometime early 2007. Mostly because stuff works and it’s easy to install. Lately my “sambo” got herself a laptop so I sugested she use OpenSuSE, not for any other reason that it’s proably a good one.
Should my new machine run OpenSuSE too? Well maybe, but then I’d try something else. Unfortunately Kubuntu didn’t like my machine at all so Mandriva 2008 beta got installed. The Mandriva ONE edition i.e. With the Free edition I’d get a chicken-and-egg problem with WiFI drivers. I’d need to download the separately, which I cannot do because I don’t have WiFI set up.

Fortunaltely Mandriva ONE startup just find, found all hardware. Great!.

Oh, It’s a 64-bit CPU, but I “only” have 4 GB RAM so I see little point in actually running a 64-bit OS on it.

Update: I found out that I only get to use 3.5 GB with a 32-bit OS, so that’s a drawback.