I no longer have a netbook, but when I did I tried several distros on it (Asus eeePC 701). The ones that ran best were Cruncheee, Puppeee, Salix, Peppermint, and Linux Mint XFCE edition.
On 04/27/2011 09:24 PM, Ken Stephens wrote: > 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<mconno...@gmail.com> 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. > > Ken > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
