64-bit LINUX advice

[[AK]Abaddon]

http://www.sabayonlinux.org/

You can download it from a link off there.

[[AK]Clay]

OK I'm seriously thinking about trying this for my tablet notebook.

I've got a few qwirks that I'm hoping you guys can offer some advice on:

It's a tablet notebook. Meaning it's a touch screen you can write on and you can rotate the screen around to make it a flat surfaces to write upon. Right now all that is built into what I have - are there some Linux OS versions or add-ons that will support this?

The tablet also has some built in nifties for playing DVD movies, with little push buttons right on the side of the screen for controls. This is custom to that brand HP laptop (HP Pavilion TX1000). Any chance I will be able to still use that? I'm hopeing this is hardware in some ways, since this will work w/out even having to boot up the machine - so maybe OS independant?

I play WoW a lot. Will WoW, it's addins, and Ventrillo work on Linux? If I have to use some kind of Windows Emulator - will I still be able to use all 4 GB of RAM I have in my machine?

[[AK]StitchJones]

Thank you for the link Ab!

[[AK]Clay]

Any updates on favorite versions of Linux? Looks like it's mostly down to Ubuntu and Sabayon.

[[AK]Hylander]

I just updated to the latest release of Ubuntu and must say it just keeps getting better. Updating doesn't get any easier and everything just works.

[[AK]The Beast]

I've got an Ubuntu VM on my MacBook, and I love running on it. Almost as much as MacOS.

[[AK]Clay]

Well this is working out -

I installed Ubuntu on my laptop last night. It wiped my harddrive and boots to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner that doesn't work. After a few keystrokes (w/ no effect), the computer starts beeping at me.

[[AK]Bribo]

Well this is working out -

I installed Ubuntu on my laptop last night. It wiped my harddrive and boots to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner that doesn't work. After a few keystrokes (w/ no effect), the computer starts beeping at me.

4th down. Time to punt.

[[AK]Clay]

After much trial end error, I now successfully have Ubuntu installed on my laptop -with the duel boot option to Vista.

While Ubuntu is supposed to be relatively user friendly for most machines, it is a bit infamously not so for the HP Pavalion TX 1000. The hardest part was getting my wireless working correctly. The learning curve is a bit steep for someone unfamiliar with Linux to having to run a battery of commands in Terminal.

Once that was done, things got a lot easier a lot faster. Once I got comfortable enough that this wasn't a dog, I decided to install Civ 4 and WINE. Lots of special little commands, programs, .dll's, etc. But you know what, once I got that all figured out, Civ 4 runs FASTER in Ubuntu than it did in Windows. That's just amazing to me - the program is coded for Windows, not Linux, and yet running an emulator and some bandaid type fixes, I'm getting superior game performance in Ubuntu. Makes the mind boggle at what games would be like if they were coded to run native mode in Linux (of which Ubuntu is a version of Linux).

I think I'll see how WoW works next (hopefully it's not too tough to get going).