Are you running that on an atom ? I have an early eeepc which limits my choices running debianeee + xfce4.
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Jean-Francois Theroux <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > About a year ago, I bought an Acer Aspire One. I needed a lightweight > machine to carry around with me mainly when I visited clients. As most of > you know, the distro that's installed by default on it is kinda bad. So for > a while I had UNR installed on it, and then a stripped out version of Debian > with XFCE4. UNR's GUI didn't appeal to me. And XFCE4 was never designed for > smaller screens. So sometimes, I would have a screen come up with buttons > that weren't in the screen. > > Recently, Moblin 2.1 was released. After seeing screenshots of it, I > figured I'd give it a spin. Afterall, the distro was built from the ground > up to run on Intel Atom-based netbooks. Screenshots can be found here: > http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-overview/netbook-screenshots > > On the positive side, it installed faster than anything else I had tried > on my AA1. Everything worked out of the box. No need to fiddle to get the > hardware running. The GUI is very impressive. I'd even like to run that on > my regular laptop. Speed-wise, it's very snappy. Doesn't feel like an under > powered machine at all. The distro has so far all the applications I could > ever want to run on that machine. > > On the negative side, well, it doesn't have the plethora of software > available on Debian/Ubuntu. My understanding is, they developed from scratch > and didn't base it on a pre-existing distro. They chose RPM/Yum as a package > manager. It would be very simple to roll out RPM yourself though, and join > the development community. Also, by default, it auto logs you in. Something > I find strange. Easily fixed though: install gnome-screensaver and you will > be prompted for credentials before being able to use the machine. The zones > concept is kinda odd at first. Each application runs in it's own virtual > desktop. I believe that's because each application is sandboxed. Not a big > deal though, you get used to it quickly. > > Overall, a very satisfying OS for netbooks. The best I've used so far. > Highly recommended. > > -- > :(){ :|:& };: > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > -- ___..____._..___._..___. ...|...|___/..|..|......|..|___| ...|...|.....\..|..|___.|..|.....| "I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it." -Vincent Van Gogh _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
