Distro War: the netbook

[Tuna]

*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?

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?
>