Older Gateway M680 notebook upgrades flawlessly to openSuse 10.2
I've spent some pretty intensive work time on my M685 notebook over the last months. The M680 is the Pentium M-based Gateway on which I installed Suse Linux 10.0 (before it became openSuse). In the past few weeks I slowly began to investigate if the M680 was worth the effort of upgrading the Linux partition beyond Suse 10. The answer is absolutely yes.
After installing and tweaking Suse 10, I had a pretty solid development system. I still had to add additional libraries and upgrade some of the default tools (such as gcc) to more current versions, but overall Suse 10 on the notebook was very satisfying and effective. Rather than automatically upgrade from Suse Linux 10 to openSuse 10,2, I decided to check out three distributions to see if I should upgrade to openSuse, or pick another distribution.
For testing purposes I chose Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Tribe 3, Ubuntu 7.04, Fedora 7, and openSuse 10.2. All four of these have live CDs or DVDs into which you can boot and test before installation.
The first distribution I tested was Gutsy Gibbon.
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