[Cialug] Linux on a netbook

[Jerry Heiselman]

I found that Puppy Linux provided the best support for my Acer AspireOne.

Ubuntu didn't correctly work with my mouse.

Fedora was too large for the memory card that I had at the time, so I
should revisit that.

I tried quite a few others that claimed decent netbook support, but they
all failed in some way.

--
Jerry
On Mar 1, 2012 4:46 PM, "Jeff Chapin" <chapinjeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry about the cross posting, for those of you on the Cedar Lug mailing
> list.
>
> All,
>
> I have a Dell Mini 10v that I upgraded to 2GB of RAM a while back, and may
> be upgrading to an SSD in the near future, replacing the 60GB drive I
> currently have. I also replaced the Broadcom wireless card with an Intel
> one (when I did it, Intel was far better supported in Linux. I see now that
> the old chipset has some support...)
>
> I multi-booted this device in the past, playing around:
> 1) The Ubuntu that came on it from Dell
> 2) Fedora KDE 14 (with the fedora-netbook kernel)
> 3) Moblin
> 4) Chromium
>
> These are all older versions, and I have been playing around with newer
> versions on USB sticks.  Anyone have any recommendations on distros to try,
> or tweaks to make to make any given distro preform better on a netbook?
>
> Let the flame war commence!
>
> --
> Jeff Chapin
> President, CedarLug, retired
> President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it"
> President, UNI Scuba Club
> Senator, NISG, retired
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