[PLUG] Favorite Linux Netbook specific distro?

[Ken Stephens]

Darren Couch wrote:
> as an aside, ive been running arch solid for a while now - the current installs and documentation are top notch (although i am not much of a netbook guy yet)
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> On Apr 27, 2011, at 19:13, Mike Connors<mconnors1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>>> I've been switching back and forth between Ubuntu 10.04 and Archlinux
>>> on a Dell Mini for the past year, with one of the early Atoms and 1GB
>>> of RAM.  This thing has soldiered on like a champ, and really haven't
>>> noticed any slowdown running the full GNOME environment.  In fact, I
>>> briefly played with the Netbook Remix and it felt a lot less
>>> responsive than vanilla Desktop.
>>>
>>> That said, I'm currently running Arch with Awesome WM, and it's zippy
>>> and light and I love it.
>>> --
>>> Sean
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>> Thanks for the tip on Arch! I tried it a few years back and I couldn't
>> get it to boot on my IBM T60. I was
>> a bit disappointed as it seemed to be a potentially great distro. It's
>> also now listed in the top 10 distros on
>> distrowatch.com and has gotten some very good reviews as well. It's on
>> the list of distros to try out.
>>
>> If anyone who regularly attends the PLUG Sunday Linux Clinics is
>> reading this thread, I'd be curious to know how
>> many people are showing up with netbooks and asking about some of the
>> more obscure distros like Arch. It's always fun to sit
>> at home and play around w. different distros, it might be more fun to
>> have a "netbook nerd" day to be able to check out what other
>> people are running, talk shop, eat penquinos, and drink coffee. :-)
>>
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I have been running Ubuntu on my ASUS EEEPC 1000.  It's snappy even
with GNOME Desktop.

Ken