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Originally Posted by lancewex View Post
I believe you're thinking of Ubuntu, which automatically walks you through set up.

So no one is actually using the available Meego? Not a good sign I think.
I think it probably was OpenSUSE, but I'm not sure as I have several linuxes installed, and it is some time since I tried. I haven't had any use for it.

I use Meego on my netbook. The main problem with meego is that it works out of the box only on a very limited amount of hw. This will not improve due to "closed" drivers. I have to recompile the wifi drivers for every update of the kernel, and after a few times it gets boring. The sole purpose of Meego is for Intel to sell Intel hw without MS leeching the profit. When you get a new netbook with Meego installed, the manufactorer supplies all the closed drivers they want, but when installing Meego yourself, you bettr have pure intel hw, or you will have to compile the drivers yourself. In most popular linuxes, closed drivers are included in the distro, except for a few open source fanatics distros.

Probably better to look in the Meego and OpenSUSE forums.