[Lincoln LUG] Linux Distros for Netbooks

[Rebecca Newborough]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Philip Newborough
<corenominal at corenominal.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Alistair Crust <alistair at spilsby.net> wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>>  I've never posted to this mailing list before, and I constantly intended to get to the lug meetings although alas work and family commitments have always kinda got in my way.
>>
>
> Hey Alistair :)
>
> Welcome to the list. Hopefully you'll be able to attend a meeting soon.
>
>>  Introductions out the way, I would like to tap up the collective for opinions/suggestions (I get the feeling I know what Phil will say here)
>>
>>  I have just taken possesion of a compaq mini (500sa) and after replacing the defunct hdd and cleaning the rice pudding out the keyboard (previous owners children) I am looking for different OS's to try out on it.
>>
>>  I have installed ubuntu 12.04 which works well, but I would love to try out some different ones to compare and was wondering if any one had any ideas for lightweight distros tweeked for this type of netbook.
>>
>>  Hope everyone is having a nice relaxing Sunday, and thanks in advance for any suggestions (Phill, I do intend on trying crunchbang, but I would love to know more about it and why it does what it does so well).
>>
>
> I could always bring a copy of CrunchBang to the next meeting and we
> could try it in a live session -- I am always interested in testing it
> on different systems ;)
>
> Cheers
>  -- Philip
>
> P.S. I think the next meeting is on the 15th Feb, Becky, can you confirm?
>

Hi Alistair

Thank you for the lovely introduction post. It would be nice to meet
you in person. I can confirm that our next LUG meeting is on Weds 15th
Feb starting at 7.30pm. Details are on the LUG website and have been
sent to the mailing list.

Cheers

Becky