Distro War: the netbook

[Trent Shipley]

By way of review:


It looks like the little HP x  Ubuntu will work fine as a document
reader (HTML and PDF) at hotspots (my intended function).  I just read
some ESRI documentation at Starbucks.


Unfortunately it won't wake after being suspended (like when you open
the lid).  A quick Google search indicates that Canonical is having
problems with this bug.  Some OEMs are upset, so I expect it to be fixed
soon.



Trent Shipley wrote:

> Stephen wrote:
>
>   
>> see if you have ndis wrapper installed and maybe you can wake it up?
>> you might possibly have the first netbook with an incompatible nic in
>> it for linux, as the linux community seems to work hard at making that
>> work.
>>   
>>     
> jockey/Hardware Drivers installed drivers.  Wireless now works.
>
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>> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Trent Shipley <tshipley at deru.com> wrote:
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>>     
>>> I got netbook Ubuntu installed and working beautifully...except for
>>> wireless networking.  Unfortunately, the main reason for getting a
>>> netbook was for wireless networking.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Trent Shipley wrote:
>>>
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>>>       
>>>> Tuna wrote:
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>>>>> *bump because the timestamp is crazy-early and probably at the bottom
>>>>> of everyone's mail client*
>>>>>
>>>>> Ryan Rix will tell you Fedora, and can also tell you a thing or two about
>>>>> bootable USB drives on netbooks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you tell us what make and model of netbook it is?
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>           
>>>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook
>>>>
>>>> Wound up going with this.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HP Mini 110-1125NR
>>>> s/n CNU94438GZ
>>>> p/n VM 135UA#ABA
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>         
>>>>> Your messages appear to be getting greylisted, so Ryan may want to take
>>>>> this discussion off list.
>>>>>
>>>>> Excerpts from Trent Shipley's message of Fri Nov 20 17:04:57 -0700 2009:
>>>>>
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>>>>>> I just got a netbook and it is running Windows 7 Starter.  I intend to
>>>>>> promiscuously attach it to public networks.  I figure I can avoid a lot
>>>>>> of heartache by changing the OS to Linux.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I already have Kubuntu on my favorite desktop.  I like it, except that
>>>>>> after every major upgrade it gets flaky for a while.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) I'd like to use anything except *ubuntu on the netbook.  What are
>>>>>> some promising options?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2) I assume I use a bootable memory stick to start getting the distro, yes?
>>>>>>
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