04-19-2009
I don't have facts but from my personal experience, Ubuntu seems to have the most hardware compatibility...for example, a friend of mine installed Ubuntu and immediately plugged in his USB dongle provided to him by his ISP for internet connectivity and Ubuntu brought up an interface for the dongle that allowed him to choose who the ISP was and this interface contained a list of all the ISP's in Sri Lanka.
I've never had too many problems putting Ubuntu on laptops either. Most of the time, there will at least be a third party driver for even the most exotic hardware out there.
The best thing for you to do is, get Ubuntu and maybe Fedora and some other Linux distros's Live CD's and try them out so that you give the distro's a test run before committing to them by installing them.
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mgpnet
MGPNET(1) BSD General Commands Manual MGPNET(1)
NAME
mgpnet -- MagicPoint Netserver (provide MagicPoint presentation over the net)
SYNOPSIS
mgpnet [arguments to mgp]
DESCRIPTION
mgpnet is a small http server to be executed on the presenter's notebook computer. It lets audience read MagicPoint presentation foils on
her notebook computers, over the net.
When a presenter performs a presentation, she should invoke mgpnet instead of mgp, with the same argument. mgpnet will become an http server
running on tcp port 9999 (by default), and invokes mgp as a child process. By accessing URL http://hostname:9999/, audience will be able to
read the MagicPoint window currently displayed on the presenter's notebook. The webpage provided by mgpnet is designed in "client pull" man-
ner; audience's notebook will reload the page, several times a minute.
If no option is specified, mgpnet will print the URL to be accessed by the audience to the standard output. This is useful for indicating
the URL to be accessed on the presentation, like:
%filter "mgpnet"
%endfilter
TODO
Be network conscious. Current implementation is too naive about CPU/network usage. Presenter's notebook may be overloaded if there's too
many audiences.
SEE ALSO
mgp(1), xwintoppm(1).
HISTORY
mgpnet was created by Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@itojun.org>, on the day before the newyear's eve, 1997.
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