[PLUG] Favorite Linux Netbook specific distro?

chris (fool) mccraw gently at gmail.com
Wed Apr 27 16:56:51 UTC 2011


On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 06:27, Roderick A. Anderson
<raanders at cyber-office.net> wrote:
> Mike Connors wrote:
>> I'm going to purchase my first Netbook this week. What's your fav
>> Linux Netbook specific OS and why?

i don't need a netbook specific OS for my netbook (i use stock
xubuntu, and pare down the list of running processes judiciously.
don't need cron if you run updatedb manually on occasion,
frinstance.).

then again, i also bend the fabric of time and space and do crazy
things like run two-three virtual machines simultaneously on it while
still using the console interactively.  it isn't awesome, but neither
is it terrible.

i did try out the netbook remix of ubuntu, but as a 20-year veteran of
the X window System who has his setup pretty tweaked, their little gui
immediately turned me off.

can't recommend gnome or kde on the thing, though.  i use xfce4 or
ratpoison depending on my mood.



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