I am about to put puppy 511 on a gateway mx3215 1.4 celron and 1 gig of ram. Has 40gig HD and I have another 40 gig HD that I cant use yet until I get the hook up.brians3 wrote:First off: Puppy Linux is the best Linux distribution available...period.
The Gateway is a barebones MX3225 with a 1.5 Celeron.
All 3 laptops work seamlessly with Puppy. And the speed is fantastic. I save my configuration to the hard drives and that makes it easy to boot up and use Puppy.
There have been issues with the soundcards working especially on the Gateway which I'm looking into now.
If anyone finds this interesting I can submit more technical detail in a future post. I'm composing this on my Gateway currently.
An interesting thing, too, for me with Puppy. My Gateway has a built-in wifi via Realtek. This wifi regularly has disconnects when I boot up under Windows XP and have taken to using a pcmcia Linksys card which is more stable most of the time.
Under Puppy, I connect regularly with the Realtek wifi and have left the Gateway on for a whole day without getting disconnected once. For me, that's impressive.
For that alone, I love Puppy Linux.
But I had problems a while ago when I put LM8 on it. It has something to do with getting openchrome set up right. Took me about 4-5 days to get the screen resolution and sound right on mint.
So maybe we can bang around ideas on getting the sound right on the gateways..