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xwrs

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Registered: 2010-09-30

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What to choose?

Hi

I have such a situation. Soon I will bring a laptop. This budget unit Pentium DC P6000 ~1.80Ghz, 2gb ddr3, 250gb hdd. Screen 15.6 '
The laptop was purchased in order to start programming environments for Java (NetBeans, Eclipse), Application Server (Tomcat, Glassfish), etc.
Is a choice - to install Ubuntu or Arch.
Arch I have is on the desktop, I get updated often - like everything is calm and normal, but there is no need for that either strongly set as set of equipment rather common, and almost all bred out of the box. I doubt that Arch will do without dancing with a tambourine. To do this, I can build gentoo
Ubuntu is (hopefully) will give too much working out of the box functions for laptop. At the same time want to be a weak laptop and quickly worked and everything in it worked.
What to choose?

Last edited by xwrs (2010-11-23 10:34:35)

Allan

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Re: What to choose?

Arch is what you make it.   If you want to use it and can spare some time to set it up, then there is nothing stopping you using it.   If you want to plug and play, pick something else.

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_abraxas

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Registered: 2010-11-23

Posts: 43

Re: What to choose?

if you want to configure everything like acpi, cardreader, cam, micro, wlan etc etc, you can try arch. i was bored to do so, thus i'm running madbox on my netbook, which is a minimalist ubuntu running openbox. or you can try crunchbang. those are working out of the box - which is imo way more comfortable for a laptop.

Last edited by _abraxas (2010-11-23 14:34:57)

_abraxas

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Registered: 2010-11-23

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Re: What to choose?

sorry - double-posting

Last edited by _abraxas (2010-11-23 14:35:37)