My IBM Thinkpad T40 is dualboot with Win7 Starter and Ubuntu 11.04.
Startup time is 40-50% faster when boot with Ubuntu.

hi all,

Does anyone know a laptop besides the EeePc series that works with airmon ng and monitoring mode, packet injection out of the box for ubuntu 11?

can check aircrack website for supported network cards

have done that.
but it seems that its still a hit or miss thing, from the backtrack forums, the best way suggested was to boot a live cd/usb and test it out.
Sadly i tried that and alot of promoters very dulan about it.

My old laptop with BCM4312 can use it out of the box with B43 driver.

Hey guys , I have been asking for info on Compaq Presario CQ40 drivers on Ubuntu for quite some times in Ubuntu forum but no one replied. The wifi driver provided not that good since it only allows me to connect to wifi but aircrack-ng all not support the system shown can't allocated wifi driver. Any method to get appropriate drivers for my lappy ? and I only got gpu and wifi drivers the remanining sounds/proc drivers all don have.

Does it means that your lappy don't have sound? And what proc driver for? Just asking..

Any distro for notebook with encrypting partitions support during install ?

any recommended distro for netbook? got only 1gb Ram for netbook..

Best option is to build up from a minimal one. Either Debian, GRML, Arch, Crux is a good bet. You'll need to do your homework to know what kind of hardware you have (especially wireless chipset) and it'll take some time. If you do it properly and install a lightweight WM, it'll fly. Learn to compile your own kernel and do some undervolting with phc to maximize battery life and lower temperatures on your netbook.

Gentoo and sorcerer work great too, but require even more time.

If you want something out of the box with all the Gnome bling-bling widgets and effects, try Fuduntu : http://www.fuduntu.org/

Other options,

Zenix
http://zenix-os.net/index.html

CrunchBang
http://crunchbanglinux.org/

Aptosid (Xfce version)
http://aptosid.com/

If you want something ultra-light and small, but without as many apps as the big distros, you can also look at Slitaz: http://www.slitaz.org/en/

does anyone here using Asus A43S series laptop? i tried to install Ubuntu 11.10 in a flash drive using pendrivelinux and unetbootin but the flash drive didnt appear in the boot menu. is this a hardware compatible problem or what, seems this series is still new in the market?

Use jolicloud! Nevertheless, stay out from Ubuntu 11.10, on my netbook it's has minimal delay and lag. on 2GB dual core Atom.

i also want destop for linux

I have HCL laptop with Core 2 Duo Processor and I am using Ubuntu. I am not having any problem for the last six months. Previously Windows Vista was installed on my laptop but I would love to use Linux so I tried Ubuntu and it works great.

I was browsing through here, looking for alternative distros for my netbook and I saw this. Fuduntu is exactly what I'm looking for! Thanks man!

eee Asus 1st version netbook also work smooth using Ubuntu ver 10

Ubuntu is okay, but I find the Unity interface to be real buggy. On netbooks you have no choice but to run Unity 2D, or revert to GNOME2, which just doesn't look nice enough for me.

nice info
bcoz I just use 4 my php programming and open office
which linux is better then?

It's really all about personal preference. What suits one person may not suit another. Don't be afraid to experiment.

HI i am using acer aspire with core i5 processor and have two operating system . and it's work with Linux as well.