[HLUG] Linux for Netbook

[Julian Robbins]

On 5 July 2010 12:43, Paul Stenning <paul at sp-tech.co.uk> wrote:

> I don't want anything based on Ubuntu
>

I think 10.04 LTS is a good release, but didnt have enough time bug fixing.
I found lots of dodgy issues when trying to implement KVM. I think after a
couple of months more, it will be fine, but I'm not so sure if Ubuntu's LTS
releases are particularly more stable for server deployment compared to SLES
and RHES releases as they are on a different release cycle compared to the
desktop releases they follow, ie Fedora and SUSE.

Julian

PS Lubuntu probably isnt a bad bet for a netbook. I havent tried it, but
heard good things

PPS You could look at moblin, Jolicloud etc



>
> Paul
>
>
> On 05/07/2010 12:40, dicegeorge at hotmail dot com wrote:
> > Lubuntu?
> >
> > http://lubuntu.net/
> >
> >
> > ~
> > ~  [g]  ~
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > 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).
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Paul Stenning
> >>
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