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>&#13; The
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has most of the desired features for a laptop installation. The
distribution has a quite flexible installation tool. The installation
process is well documented, especially concerning the methods which
are useful for laptops. All the binaries are tiny, because they are
stripped. A mailing list <EM
>debian-laptop</EM
> including
a searchable archive is provided. And Debian/GNU Linux is free.
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>&#13; At the end of August 1999 the
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was issued. And some more laptop related packages and a Debian
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>&#13; Note: I know other Linux distributions work well with laptops, too. I
even tried some of them, see my pages about certain laptops mentioned
above.
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