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

[Topher]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Colin Vallance wrote:

> 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?

The same week I got this HP2133 we got one of the eee 2G Surf models.  My 
lackey put ubuntu-eee on it, but it was hard.  Only the very latest 
version will fit in 2G, and then only with no swap and ext2 as the 
filesystem.

She also tried the netbook remix the ubuntu-eee folk made up, but she far 
preferred plain Enlightenment.

The 2G eee is way too small for just about anything really, in every way. 
The larger eee's (900 etc) still seem to have the micro-keyboard the 700 
series has, and it's really not that nice to work on.  The HP's keyboard 
is close enough to regular laptop sized that I didn't have to "adjust" my 
typing at all.


>
>
> 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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