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- Sargos, on 04/30/2009, -1/+18This is a pretty bare comparison of distros with no mention of the most popular ones such as Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Eeebuntu, or EasyPeasy.
Pretty crap article but Pupeee looks pretty cool. - kpmoore, on 04/30/2009, -0/+6The UNR flavor of Jaunty Jackalope is fantastic... I'm surprised they didn't include it.
- breakingwheel, on 04/30/2009, -0/+6CrunchEEE is worth checking out too.
- Fizzbuzzmeh, on 04/30/2009, -0/+5Er.. Ubuntu Netbook Remix had its own individual review on the site that the article links to. I agree UNR is better.
- awseft, on 04/30/2009, -0/+5They need to test on other netbooks. The hardware is cheap enough.
- Onion575, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3For me, the opposite is true. Aero is a bit more than netbooks can handle quickly.
- blitzkriegpunk, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2I wish the guys behind Jolicloud would hurry up and publish a release:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/new-screensho ... - kb9vgr, on 04/30/2009, -1/+3why do i feel like pronouncing it poop-ee
- JosedeNoche, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2indeed Linux is getting ahead on NetBooks...hope i can buy miself a netbook to try one of many distro =)
- ratrip, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2*** There needs to be only one distro, developed by the whole *nix community. Then linux gets a chance to become usable/user friendly/etc. ***
If that were true, why is Windows still not user friendly enough to keep people from looking towards Linux?
Windows and Office are developed by one focused, central organization. By your logic, this should yield the best possible outcome. Yet everybody who comments on the usability of GNU/Linux, is quietly hoping to replace Windows with Linux someday. So this friendly, user usability utopia doesn't seem to exist.
My opinion? Nobody wants to get of their lazy asses and truly invest time and money into using Linux. If they did, they'd know the true benefits of Linux. Windows and complementary software is designed to be a set of boxed in components. You get functionality to the extent you are willing to pay for the necessary building blocks adding the functionality. The whole process of building a Windows system out is both cumbersome and costly. The end result is still a hardly maintainable hodgepodge of non-integrated packages.
Linux is not a software Valhalla, but at least it is much better integrated, more easily maintainable and most functionality can be added by the cost of a click. So what that "brand name" packages are not ported to it? I can find equivalent functionality elsewhere and I'm not afraid to use my creativity to combine outputs from different pieces of software to get the end result I want.
Trusting on "nobody gets criticized for using the accepted brand name, monolithic package for certain tasks" doesn't guarantee that the output is any better or more efficiently obtained than using something else than the proscribed safe choice. - bytor4232, on 05/01/2009, -1/+2I tried a few of these "Netbook" distros. UNR Jaunty has a wicked nasty bug effecting the pointer in the Asus Eee hardware when using the clutter interface. I finally just did a alternate "command line only" install of Ubuntu, installed xfce4, gdm, firefox, network-manager-gnome and a few other necessary apps. Works great.
I love how there's a distro for everything, really I do. However I'm just gonna stick with vanilla distros for now. I've been burned by specialization too much. - staticx57, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1On windows 7? vista maybe but aero in the mini 1000 with 2 GB ram flies
- doubad, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1Agreed, I've had fedora 10/fedora 11/Ubuntu Intrepid/Mandriva/ and Win XP on my acer aspire one.
UNR Jaunty is by far the fastest without making any compromises.
I avoided UNR for a long time until I finally gave it a chance, I have no regrets now. - Googled, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1I'm using Arch Linux on my Netbook (NC10) with XFCE and it runs to perfection; very fast and lightweight.
I've tried most parent distros on it; although not the Netbook based spinoffs, such as Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian, and I have to say non hold up to Arch (though I do love the other distros mentioned)
It's a bare bones system when installed with no WM, averaging about 200MB, so no bloat-crap-ware that you don't need; just pick and install that packages what you want.
Wireless, Video, Sound all work out of the box, just very minor tweaking required.
Boot time takes around 20seconds to boot to the terminal, 25 to the GUI.
I'm very impressed with this distro on a low-spec machine and recommend people give it a try. - smacksaw, on 04/30/2009, -2/+2The Eee version of Xubuntu looks nice. We're doing Ubuntu Netbook Remix because we have actual hard drives in our Aspire Ones.
It makes you thing that once large SSDs get cheaper, the 4GB/8GB limitations that require such a small footprint OS is less of a consideration. The savings on size comes at a price...gOS looks great, but at 15% of a 4GB SSD that is a big hit.
I don't actually know what the footprint of UNR is, but I know that it's worth it if you have at least a 16GB SSD. - 5Horizons, on 05/04/2009, -0/+0Same here, except I'm running Arch with Gnome on an Aspire One. Setting everything up takes a little while, but it's definitely a great distro for netbooks.
- inactive, on 04/30/2009, -3/+2i agree
- inactive, on 04/30/2009, -3/+1im waiting for full open source which has been available technology for the last 6 years but you won't hear about that from the software companies, IBM has to much money to make off consumers, they basically bought that idea out so that it would never take off, open source = no need for obsolete software.
- protodon, on 04/30/2009, -6/+4I tried UNR and just regular Ubuntu on my HP Mini 1000 and frankly they sucked. The thing came preloaded with WIndows XP for netbooks or something. I was determined not to use it but Ubuntu/UNR drove me right back into it's arms. There is really nothing wrong with it. Wndows XP also started up way faster than the linux OS's I had on there.
- lashtal, on 04/30/2009, -3/+0There needs to be only one distro, developed by the whole *nix community. Then linux gets a chance to become usable/user friendly/etc.
- bringitontimx, on 04/30/2009, -3/+0it's BROWN and dull-orangeish. like ubuntu.
- staticx57, on 04/30/2009, -6/+1Do yourself a favor and put windows 7 on there. I use that on my mini 1000 and it runs better than XP.
- bashmohandesx, on 04/30/2009, -10/+1149 diggs and front page already :S
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