[Cialug] Linux on a netbook

[Nathan C. Smith]

Linux Mint might be an obvious one.  It seems to be gathering quite a following.

-Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Chapin
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 4:47 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: [Cialug] Linux on a netbook

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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