Re: [be] Two Ubuntu-like distros

[Dennis Drescher]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for sharing that. Personally I like the Ubuntu Remix distro. That 
gives me a familiar feel. However, on the subject of netbooks, my 
experience over the past couple days has taught me a valuable lesson 
(again). When it comes to netbooks, if the hardware you are trying to 
drive doesn't play well with the open source community, your hossed. 
(For my non-native American English speaking friends: that's bad. :-)

I bought a BenQ Joybook and discovered it had a GMA500 graphics display 
card. There was very little joy in this Joybook the further I got into 
it. That particular card is not well supported at this time. The results 
was very poor performance with Ubuntu and the fix was not easy to 
implement, at least for me. Turns out there are a number of pieces 
hardware on that particular netbook that would take days to sort out and 
some things would never work in the current state of Linux or even in 
the near future.

Being quite disappointed in the folly of my buying such a doorstop, I 
reduced myself to graveling and pleaded with the store to take it back. 
With a little less money in my pocket, I left the store with an Acer 
Aspire 1410. Let me just say, this netbook just works under Ubuntu and 
I'm sure most any other distro would work good on it too. I highly 
recommend it. Plus, with it's 11.6 screen, you can hardly class it as a 
netbook. The list of tweaks it needs to get everything working under 
Linux is relatively short, easy and insignificant compared to the BenQ 
Joybook.

Lesson learned, do your homework before you go out and buy a netbook if 
you want to run it on Linux. They are not all equal and by all means, 
stay away from the GMA 500 Graphics display card!

Dennis


Oreo Warpok wrote:
> I thought that people on this list might be interested in my short review of
> Two Ubuntu-like Distros 
> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVoS3ChQ6M4YZG40enJ3Ml80MDhjNGZuN2My&hl=en>. 
> These are Jolicloud (for netbooks) and Mint Linux.
>
> The complete link is:�
> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVoS3ChQ6M4YZG40enJ3Ml80MDhjNGZuN2My&hl=en 
> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVoS3ChQ6M4YZG40enJ3Ml80MDhjNGZuN2My&hl=en>
>
> Phil
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