Distro War: the netbook

[Trent Shipley]

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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