[Novalug] Need Linux options/suggestions for Eee PC Distro
Andrew Scott Beals
andrew.beals@gmail.com
Sat Jul 9 12:59:02 EDT 2011
I ended up with a pair of EEE PC 900 machines and they both currently have Ubuntu on them.
As a general remark: the 4GB SSD is good enough if you never save anything but small text files. If you're going to do any amount of multimedia stuff, you'll want a 16 or 32 GB SSD. Bonus: there are SATA SSDs in the mini-PCI form-factor.
I currently have Ubuntu 10.10 loaded on both and it's quite snappy. They've been pestering me to upgrade to Natty for a while, of course, and I keep clicking "Later".
On Jul 9, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Ken Kauffman wrote:
> The new Ubuntu is supposedly Netbook friedly while not being a special
> edition. See this article:
>
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/the-end-of-ubuntu-netbook-edition-the-return-of-ubuntu/
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 21:21, Jay Hart <jhart@kevla.org> wrote:
>> This Eee PC I've been working on is for a young lady about to go into the
>> hospital for three weeks. The PC itself I believe has wireless and ethernet
>> connections. Thanks to Alan Grimes for giving me a working drive. Much
>> appreciated...
>>
>> So, right now I've got Unbuntu 10.2 installed (last version I could get for
>> netbooks). I couldn't get XP to load, need a FDD attached and don't have a USB
>> FDD.
>>
>> The need is for this young lady to be able to surf web and check email,
>> nothing fancy, doesn't need to do Word docs, excel, etc. Just some basic
>> functionality.
>>
>> I need something easy for the owners/staff to configure. I was thinking of
>> loading Fedora on it. The parents and young lady couldn't even spell Linux,
>> much less know anything about it.
>>
>> So, is Fedora the best and easiest option available? I have 48 hours to
>> finish this project.
>>
>> PS, Any users on this list in Richmond that might could stop by the hospital
>> and help out if needed?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jay
>>
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