Brad Beyenhof wrote:
Right now my top choices for possible purchase are the HP Mini-Note
(SUSE, already available), the Dell Mini-Inspiron (Ubuntu, in
production), the Acer Aspire One (Linpus Linux, in production), and
the MSI Wind (SUSE, in production). My main considerations are high
resolution--especially vertical--and low cost.
The Acer Aspire One runs Linpus? Is that a typo?
I would have to recommend not supporting SUSE due to their association
with Novell these days.
I don't really like the EEE701 much now that I've played with a VM
image of it. Especially when going over the "full Xandros desktop"
portion, the low vertical pixel count is really frustrating. Lots of
You can install whatever distro you want on pretty much any of these
machines if you don't mind putting the time into it. I would say pick
your favorite hardware and then put your favorite distro on it.
preference windows don't show their "OK" buttons because they're
taller than the screen. The EEE900 has better resolution, but it's a
little more expensive than I'd prefer to pay for one of these toys.
You know you can enable "normal" mode or whatever they call it and then
it's just a regular KDE desktop right? It all comes built-in.
The Acer looks like it might be the best combination of features and
price, but I'm curious to see how well it will run other distros than
the one that's pre-loaded.
Good question. If you end up getting one please let us know!
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