[dundee] OpenSuse 11.2 on Netbook

[Nicholas Walker]

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 :)

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk> wrote:

>
> I installed the above on a Sony Vaio M notebook (Intel Atom N450) as I got
> a
> "it must work just like my desktop"-type instruction from the user. Did not
> expect it to be a pleasant experience but it actually installed and found
> all
> the hardware first time, wireless, graphics, the lot - it even picked up
> the
> O2 dongle as soon as it was plugged in. It runs very fast as well.
>
> I know I curse OpenSnooze (much as I continue to use it) but it's
> interesting
> and a little startling  to see a full distro work on a little device like
> this, with no tweaks.
>
> I'm thinking of getting another netbook and seeing which full distros work
> and
> which don't
>
> RJL
>
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Nick Walker
President : The Linux Society
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