[HLUG] Linux for Netbook

[Paul Stenning]

I don't want anything based on Ubuntu

Paul


On 05/07/2010 12:40, dicegeorge at hotmail dot com wrote:
> Lubuntu?
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> http://lubuntu.net/
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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
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>> 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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