Netbooks have been my best technological purchase in a long time. For some reason most of the mainstream linuxes seem to just work out of the box with all of their hardware (Arch, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Debian et al) So much so, that i sold my laptop in favour of my wee little netbook :)<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Robert Ladyman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:it@file-away.co.uk">it@file-away.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br>I installed the above on a Sony Vaio M notebook (Intel Atom N450) as I got a<br>"it must work just like my desktop"-type instruction from the user. Did not<br>
expect it to be a pleasant experience but it actually installed and found all<br>the hardware first time, wireless, graphics, the lot - it even picked up the<br>O2 dongle as soon as it was plugged in. It runs very fast as well.<br>
<br>I know I curse OpenSnooze (much as I continue to use it) but it's interesting<br>and a little startling to see a full distro work on a little device like<br>this, with no tweaks.<br><br>I'm thinking of getting another netbook and seeing which full distros work and<br>
which don't<br><br>RJL<br><br>--<br>Robert Ladyman<br>File-Away Limited<br>3 Ralston Business Centre, Newtyle, Blairgowrie<br>Perthshire PH12 8TL SCOTLAND<br>Tel: +44 (0) 1828 898 158<br>Mobile: +44 (0) 7732 771 649<br>
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