2008-01-20

Acer Aspire 5520-5912

The Problem Space

I can't stand Vista any longer. I started looking last week for a Linux LiveCD distribution to use.

So far I have tried a good half-dozen [it seems - I will enumerate later] Linux LiveCD distros, and none of them have proven satisfactory. Again, I will try to detail the specific problems of each a bit later.

The Machine

Acer Aspire 5520–5912, AMD Turion 64x2 TL-58, 2 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 700M / nForce 610M, DVD-RW, Ethernet NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller, Wireless Atheros AR5007EG

The [Working] Distro(s0

  • Knoppix 5.1.1 LiveDVD