as an aside, ive been running arch solid for a while now - the current installs and documentation are top notch (although i am not much of a netbook guy yet)
On Apr 27, 2011, at 19:13, Mike Connors <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've been switching back and forth between Ubuntu 10.04 and Archlinux >> on a Dell Mini for the past year, with one of the early Atoms and 1GB >> of RAM. This thing has soldiered on like a champ, and really haven't >> noticed any slowdown running the full GNOME environment. In fact, I >> briefly played with the Netbook Remix and it felt a lot less >> responsive than vanilla Desktop. >> >> That said, I'm currently running Arch with Awesome WM, and it's zippy >> and light and I love it. >> -- >> Sean > > Thanks for the tip on Arch! I tried it a few years back and I couldn't > get it to boot on my IBM T60. I was > a bit disappointed as it seemed to be a potentially great distro. It's > also now listed in the top 10 distros on > distrowatch.com and has gotten some very good reviews as well. It's on > the list of distros to try out. > > If anyone who regularly attends the PLUG Sunday Linux Clinics is > reading this thread, I'd be curious to know how > many people are showing up with netbooks and asking about some of the > more obscure distros like Arch. It's always fun to sit > at home and play around w. different distros, it might be more fun to > have a "netbook nerd" day to be able to check out what other > people are running, talk shop, eat penquinos, and drink coffee. :-) > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
