Douglas I posted part of this lines in your blog at Linux Journal. I enhance it a little. I just installed Linux Mint 9 in my EeePC 701 replacing ubuntu 10-04. I'm pretty satisfied with Isadora (All Mint releases have had women names). Last weekend I tried to install several distributions and it only was successful installation of Linux Mint and gNewSense. gNewSense is pure free software and because of this reason some controllers have been removed from his Debian Kernel. Some of them are wireless controllers and a netbook without wireless doesn't make sense. That was one of the reasons why I tried to install Linux Mint. Except for sd card, everything is working fine with Mint distro. I like the small size of packages installed by default. It allowed me to install Glade, Geany, Eclipse, JDK, BlueJ, Dia, Ruby, Valac, PHP and all related libraries associated to all of them and despite ( I made a mistake in this part in my linux journal post.. my English is bad enough) the tiny solid state disc, it still has space to install a database and maybe other program like Umbrello or ArgoUML. Linux Mint is by far the best of the four distros that my Asus has had.
In other old pc, a desktop, I installed Salix. A distro based in Slackware. It's really nice and runs fine despite the limitations of hardware in that desktop. It was what I was looking for. I like all these new distros with environments developed using GTK libraries and are good to run in old hardware. That's fine. I'm developing a simulator using php-gtk. I don't know why but I like GTK and I like to think (without a real reason) that GTK libraries are the future of the software. Alfredo
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