Darren Couch wrote: > 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. :-) >> >> > I have been running Ubuntu on my ASUS EEEPC 1000. It's snappy even with GNOME Desktop.
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