[GRLUG] Netbook OS (was: The battle of the distros)

[Colin Vallance]

So while we're on the topic of distro nitpicking...

Has anyone bought/used any of the "netbooks" that are out?  I'm  
thinking hardware like the Acer Aspire one and the Asus Eeepc.  If so  
what do you think of their custom tweaked linux distros and have you  
swapped them out for something else?


On Nov 10, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Topher wrote:

>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Collin Kidder <adderd at kkmfg.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> So, in the end I just could find no really good reason NOT to use  
>>> Ubuntu
>>> and it works just fine. Seems to me that maybe the arguments  
>>> against it
>>> are either old and expired or just based on Elitism. Correct me if  
>>> I'm
>>> wrong.
>>
>> A proper distro war thread! (Apologies to Topher for hijacking his
>> SuSE thread...)
>
> That's ok.  What I learned is that the HP2133 comes with a custom  
> setup of
> Suse that is VERY old (firefox 2.0.1, gami 1.5, etc) with no upgrade
> packages available, and third party repos were promised to break
> everything.
>
> Total suckage.
>
> So I got Minbuntu, which is built *specifically* for the hp2133, and
> everything works swimmingly.  I think I like it better than my dell  
> d630.
>
> Topher
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