I've had bad experiences with Ubuntu everywhere i've installed or maintained it. I'd stick with Debian. Faster, more stable and you can do a base install and then add whatever desktop etc. you want with no extra BS. http://www.go2linux.org/linux/2010/12/four-years-debian-testing-876
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Courtenay Watson <[email protected]>wrote: > Our home includes 3 netbooks, all running plain Ubuntu (some gnome, > one xfce), either 10.04 or 10.10. No problems, and as someone else > said, way faster than Windows! > Courtenay Watson, > Kamloops BC > > > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Scott Thistle <[email protected]> wrote: > > I use Ubuntu Netbook Remix on my acer aspire one 110 that I bought a year > or > > more ago. Much faster than windows on it. I also only run Ubuntu on my > > laptop. Everything works out of the box (or iso) even my TV tuner. > > > > > > > > -- Sent from me > > ________________________________ > > On 28 Dec 2010 7:43 a.m., Richard Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Santa Claus left an Acer netbook under our Christmas tree (Intel atom > N450, > > 1GB RAM, 160GB HD). My wife wants to keep Windows 7 available so I plan > to > > set up a dual boot with a Linux distro. But which one? My first > instinct > > is to go with Debian, which is what I have on my desktop and I really > like. > > But many people, in CLUG and elsewhere, seem to favour ubuntu, especially > > for laptops. Any suggestions? > > > > Robin > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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