Troy Dawson wrote:
Jon Peatfield wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Chris Tooley wrote:
Hello all,
I'm helping to do some research for coworker of mine, and I was wondering if
anyone has tried to install SL on a netbook yet? And if so, what are your
experiences?
We're currently looking at an HP Mini 110 as a possible option, and I know
there is a "Mobile Internet" version which is built on linux, but is
everything working on SL? I'd assume so, but I would like to have some
confirmation...?
Are all netbooks pretty much a safe bet?
As with all laptops I'd be very dubious about it working with SL (or RHEL
or any other 'enterprise' linux distribution). These distributions are
aimed at stability and hence are somewhat conservative about having the
'latest' versions of software. Our experience with all kinds of laptops
(including various netbooks), is that to support the graphics chipsets and
things like the networking and wireless you are often better off with a
'leading edge' distribution - such as Fedora or Ubuntu.
We recently got a few S9e Lenovo netbooks (now sadly no longer available),
and I was quite surprised that the Ubuntu 9.04 live image (PXE booted)
supported pretty much all the hardware out-of-the-box. Those particular
netbooks came with Windows XP only and since they are only being used for
note taking we have left them as-is...
-- Jon
I haven't had too much luck with Scientific Linux, except SL 5.3, on
netbooks. But I have been able to use Fedora 11 on every one that I've
come across thus far, and it's recognized everything on them and just
worked.
Troy
Thanks for all your input everyone! I'll try out SL 5.3 first on
whichever netbook we decide, then I'll let you know the results :)
Thanks again,
-Chris
