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Operating Systems Linux Help: HP Pavilion dv9999 & Linux Post 302308517 by Housni on Sunday 19th of April 2009 02:21:48 AM
Old 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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NAME
byobu-quiet - Silence all of Byobu's status indicators and eliminate the hardstatus line USAGE
byobu-quiet [--undo] DESCRIPTION
byobu-quiet will disable ALL of Byobu's status indicators and eliminate the hardstatus line. Some administrators, in some environments, at some times may prefer a very minimal, quiet Byobu, without the potentially distracting status indicators and eye candy. However, the window menu is preserved, as well as all of Byobu's keybindings and helper utilities. To elminate the window list, use byobu-silent(1). SEE ALSO
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This manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permis- sion is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document and the utility under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation. The complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on Debian/Ubuntu systems, or in /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/GPL on Fedora systems, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt. byobu 10 May 2011 byobu-quiet(1)
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