Yup. On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:47 PM, patricia campbell <[email protected] > wrote:
> 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 > -- :(){ :|:& };:
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