[HLUG] Linux for Netbook

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From: "Paul Stenning" <paul at sp-tech.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 11:47 AM
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [HLUG] Linux for Netbook

> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone suggest good Linux distros to look at for an Eee PC 900
> netbook?  It has 800 x 480 graphics, 512MB RAM, 4GB Flash Drive, slow
> Celeron CPU and Intel graphics.
>
> I am currently using Ubuntu (the latest LTS) and am getting frustrated
> with it.  I seem to spend more time updating it than using it, it has
> hardly any disk space left (I need to clear space for every update) even
> though it's a minimal installation, it seems to hammer the CPU so it
> runs warm with poor battery life, and it's slow.
>
> I need something more lightweight that will work sensibly on the
> hardware (especially the screen resolution), can run recent versions of
> Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice Write and Calc (or Abiword and
> Gnumeric) and aMSN.  It also needs to have support for a Vodafone 3G 
> dongle.
>
> Suggestions welcome, before I throw the thing out of the window or
> restore the original dire Linux and sell it!!
>
> I think Ubuntu have lost their edge now.  I "upgraded" my development
> web server from 8.04LTS to 10.04LTS and the result was a right mess,
> including loss of the RAID array containing all my work.  Thankfully I
> had backed everything up (I do nightly backups).  I am now using Apache,
> PHP and MySQL on my Windows XP desktop and may reconsider the server
> when I have time (though the current setup is working fine so I may
> stick with it).
>
> -- 
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> Best regards,
> Paul Stenning
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