To be honest I'm a bit skeptical of the cloud, unless I'm the one hosting my own cloud.
Any distro should work fine enough on a netbook, I think it's just a matter of manually tweaking it to your performance tastes. I've had good experiences with debian squeeze running xfce4, it doesn't take up a lot of space and it doesn't suck up as much power as KDE or GNOME. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, nathan w <[email protected]>wrote: > On 04/28/2011 06:37 AM, wes wrote: > >> > >> > >> 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 go to most of the clinics, and I've pretty much only seen people trying > to > > get Ubuntu to work on netbooks. I've seen perhaps 5-10 netbooks show up > > there so far. > > > > -wes > surprised no-one has mentioned jolicloud. i haven't used it personally, > but it's apparently very popular, and all the reviews i've seen speak > well of it. (i believe it's ubuntu-derived) > > regards, > > nathan > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- ~ Fernando Freire _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
