I would say for a main latop or desktop Slack, Arch, and I think I'm
gonna venture into LFS after the holidays. All I have is time.
These past few weeks though for my eee, I've used Arch, Zenwalk,
Fedora 12 w/Moblin, gOS, and Easy Peasey. With screen real estate
being at a premium for those small interfaces an OS has to be more
versatile than a larger unit would be. Plus you are basically running
a computer that has the speeds of full fledged desktops 4-5 years ago.
F-12 is a nice release BUT Moblin even with them is unfinshed and
there are things that just don't work. I tried to get a copy of
Midiunux from the Asianux circle but CN speeds were probably being
monitored and they have their own form of Moblin. gOS is just *bunt*
remixed and with a lot of links to Google assets. I would love to have
seen a full working release of the new Google OS, but we'll have to
wait for that. So even though I'm not in any way a real fan of the
Canonical crowds releases Easy Peasey actually had the nicest COMPLETE
interface. I coul d up grade it just like a desktop/laptop in Debian.
Basicallly apps cover themselves in the one small space with a
maxiimized window, but it's easy to reach the easy peasey interface
switcher to open more apps or close other apps. I'm not used to sudo,
but I did find out that EP secures your passwords/shadows in sha512, I
added a root password so that is activated too. I haven''t had a lick
of problems AND it came in the color GREEN for the interface. LOL! So
on the scale of netbook OS's at present Easy Peasey comes in at a 9/10
overall.
Vi^3PP
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> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:30:08 -0700
> From: Steve Holmes
> Subject: Re: not *buntu for netbook.
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> Another distro worth exploring and very scaleable is Arch Linux
> http://www.archlinux.org
> I use it here on my desktop with its "rolling updates". It reminds me
> a bit like Slackware but the package creation and dependency tracking
> is much better. They do have bootable USB images too.
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:13:48PM -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
>> James Mcphee wrote:
>>
>> > What kind of netbook do you have? They tend towards odd hardware,
>> > and not all distros work well on each netbook.
>>
>> HP Mini 110-1125NR
>> s/n CNU94438GZ
>> p/n VM 135UA#ABA
>>
>> >
>> > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Trent Shipley > > > wrote:
>> >
>> > 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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