>Hey guys,
>I am looking for a good distro to put on our home laptop. Basically all it will need is OpenOffice, wireless network drivers, instant messengers, the ability to connect to our digitial camera, etc.
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>I have reinstalled XP a few times on it, and it always stops working reliably after a few months. I probably just need to pony up and but more memory (512 mb), but I thought I would maybe try something different.

I've installed Ubuntu 7.04 (now 7.10 with just a couple of clicks :) on a HP DV9000 - visit my blog and go back to March 2007 to see why.

It just works, except the camera.