Linux Flavor of The Month

A couple weeks ago I bought a new laptop - HP dx9000e. Very nice laptop.

I lived with Vista on it a couple of weeks. Then I decided I wanted to try a Linux distro. In the past I have been very enthusiastic about Linspire/Freespire. But I'm tired of waiting. I switched to Freespire late last fall. They promised a new release by Christmas. No new release. Last I knew they also promised one in May.

Guess what it isn't happening in May. I predict it won't be here any sooner than October.

So I decided to try Ubuntu.

I downloaded the ISO, burnt me an installer and...

No Ubuntu.

It hung on me.

So I went to the wiki for this model of Laptop, and saw that lots of others were having trouble with getting Ubuntu installed on this laptop.

I was about to give up when I remembered way back to a distro I once highly favored.

So I went to their website. Downloaded it burnt it to disc and booted up.

This distro not only booted, but correctly handled my sound,video and wireless card before I had installed it.

Cheerfully I installed Linux on my new laptop.

The Distro Flavor of The Month is:

SimplyMepis

Bravo to Warren and the rest of their team!