Linux on Lenovo, PCLinuxOS the CLEAR winner!

[Dragynn]

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jamies-mostly-linux-stuff-10006480/linux-on-the-lenovo-s10-3s-scorecard-rap-sheet-10021131/

"I have spent the past few days trying to load and test my usual variety of Linux distributions on my lovely new Lenovo S10-3s netbook. The results have been interesting, sometimes rewarding, and a bit too often frustrating.

- Windows 7 Stunted (aka Starter): This would, without a shadow of a doubt, be useless on such a netbook, and it wouldn't even co-exist peacefully with other operating systems (I couldn't resize the main partition), so it has been banished. All four original partitions on the disk have been deleted, and replaced with Linux partitions.

- PCLinuxOS 2010.10: The clear winner in this case. This was the only Linux distribution which loaded on the Lenovo S10-3s without any problem, and on which absolutely everything I have tested works - CPU, graphics, wired/wireless/bluetooth networking, touchpad (including buttons and tapping), camera, Fn-keys for brightness and sound, and everything else. This will be the distribution I will be primarily using on this netbook.".....

[menotu]

Nice find Dragynn  (you can drool over something else now  )

I think this may be a follow up to his earlier Lenovo blog which String6 had posted about.

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,83031.0.html

[jaydot]

it's so nice to see an 'outsider' loving pclinuxos, it strikes me as a good notion to leave the other thread where it is and let 'testimonials' be home for this one.  the excerpt you have included, Dragynn, neatly encapsulates what the author thinks about pclinuxos and it is an excellent testimonial.

[menotu]

Oh yes jaydot  - the other thread should most definitely be kept in place.

[Fred232]

A mate of mine pointed this ZDNET post out to me, and I was on my way over to post it here, but its already been added.

But is it clear?

It starts: "PCLinuxOS 2010.10: The clear winner in this case. This was the only Linux distribution which loaded on the Lenovo S10-3s without any problem, and on which absolutely everything I have tested works - CPU, graphics, wired/wireless/bluetooth networking, touchpad (including buttons and tapping), camera, Fn-keys for brightness and sound, and everything else."

and in the next para adds: "The wireless networking (WiFi) doesn't work"

 

Still, he seems to like PCLOS - nice one.