Linux netbooks

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:48:42 +0000, Chris Game wrote:

> On 8 Dec 2008 16:39:03 GMT, ray wrote:
>
>>> I presume you are either attempting some research on Debian-friendly
>>> brands and models, or more likely maybe looking for something that
>>> plays nice for an upcoming purchase?
>>
>> EXACTLY! I have a "full sized" laptop - looking for a much smaller one
>> for the wife.
>
> Take a look at the eeeUser.com forums site - lots of posts from people
> with varying experience of all sorts of distros on the eeePC 700/701s
> and 900/901s. The usual story is that users tire of the standard
> interface and the problems with installing new packages and upgrading,
> move on to the 'advanced' desktop which is KDE 3.something running on a
> customised Xandros distro which is not supported at all well by Asus,
> then realising the limitations people try various Ubuntu derivatives
> with particular kernels which support the acpi and wifi stuff on the
> eeePC, then abandon them because they are rather 'heavy' for the
> standard 701s at least, but the saviour is the eeePC Debian wiki
> (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC) which points to installers and the
> tweaks necessary to install stock Debian on the machine and take it from
> there.

Thanks for info and link. I've looked over the distros available on
several netbooks and I'm not impressed. I don't want an rpm based distro
which rules out Linpus, SUSE and Mandrivel. Seems like installing Debian
would be a great idea - hence the posting here. I certainly would not
attempt KDE either. Gnome would probably be all right - though might try
XFCE or Enlightenment as well.


>
> If you want a distro with some eye-appeal, lots of codecs installed by
> default, and which runs well on the smaller machines, try crunchbang
> (#!) which comes highly recommended by people I trust, although I run
> the Debian standard KDE 3.4 myself.

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:48:42 +0000, Chris Game wrote:

> On 8 Dec 2008 16:39:03 GMT, ray wrote:
>
>>> I presume you are either attempting some research on Debian-friendly
>>> brands and models, or more likely maybe looking for something that
>>> plays nice for an upcoming purchase?
>>
>> EXACTLY! I have a "full sized" laptop - looking for a much smaller one
>> for the wife.
>
> Take a look at the eeeUser.com forums site - lots of posts from people
> with varying experience of all sorts of distros on the eeePC 700/701s
> and 900/901s. The usual story is that users tire of the standard
> interface and the problems with installing new packages and upgrading,
> move on to the 'advanced' desktop which is KDE 3.something running on a
> customised Xandros distro which is not supported at all well by Asus,
> then realising the limitations people try various Ubuntu derivatives
> with particular kernels which support the acpi and wifi stuff on the
> eeePC, then abandon them because they are rather 'heavy' for the
> standard 701s at least, but the saviour is the eeePC Debian wiki
> (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC) which points to installers and the
> tweaks necessary to install stock Debian on the machine and take it from
> there.

Thanks for info and link. I've looked over the distros available on
several netbooks and I'm not impressed. I don't want an rpm based distro
which rules out Linpus, SUSE and Mandrivel. Seems like installing Debian
would be a great idea - hence the posting here. I certainly would not
attempt KDE either. Gnome would probably be all right - though might try
XFCE or Enlightenment as well.


>
> If you want a distro with some eye-appeal, lots of codecs installed by
> default, and which runs well on the smaller machines, try crunchbang
> (#!) which comes highly recommended by people I trust, although I run
> the Debian standard KDE 3.4 myself.