Distro War: the netbook

[Trent Shipley]

I suppose I should change that setting and see if it helps.  What a
waste of battery life.


James Mcphee wrote:

> The *bunt* that I'm using disables suspend on lid close completely. 
> For now at any rate.
>
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Trent Shipley <tshipley at deru.com
> <mailto:tshipley at deru.com>> wrote:
>
>     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.
>     >
>     >
>     >> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Trent Shipley
>     <tshipley at deru.com <mailto:tshipley at deru.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>> 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:
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>> Tuna wrote:
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>> *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?
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Wound up going with this.
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>> HP Mini 110-1125NR
>     >>>> s/n CNU94438GZ
>     >>>> p/n VM 135UA#ABA
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>> 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:
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>> 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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