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
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