This is the story of my struggle for an OS on my Laptop which is some 4 years old.
I got this LP some 20 days ago.It came loaded with Vista.I simply removed it , because i wanted to use my LP.
Then came windows XP.
Network (neither WIFI nor LAN) failed to start with some weired reason.
Next came Ubuntu 8.10.
Network was ok but libstdc++6.2.so failed again.
So after a long tussle of some 20 days , i came up with OpenSolaris 2008.5.
As a check, i worked with Live CD itself.
Every thing including its desktop effect worked along with Network.
I am happy with OpenSolaris :)
(I didnt mean to heart any sentiment related to xp,vistaor ubuntu.All of them are good but unfortunately failed on my Old LP for
one or the other unknown reasons)