On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 01:40:02PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I've been running plain old Fedora 13 KDE on my Aspire One for a while > > .. I don't see the point of a netbook specific distribution or > > variation. An Aspire One is nothing special in the CPU/RAM/HD aspect and > > it handles 'standard' linux just fine. > > The reason for Netbook-specific distributions is largely because for > many people, these are used in a different way. I.e. the usage-pattern > being different it is worthwhile to use a different GUI (I use plain > old Debian on my Netbook and it works fine, but it suffered from > occasional minor problems mostly due to the screen size (i.e. dialog > boxes where all the buttons are unreachable)),
Yes, I have that problem. I think it gave me gnome as a UI, and I still haven't figured out how to move a window if I have to move the title bar of the top of the screen. -- hendrik > and many people > have a hard time distinguishing the GUI from the distribution. In my case, the program that turns the wifi on and off seems to be a gnome program. It doesn't seem to appear with icewm, for example. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
