10-25-2009, 03:40 AM
I tried both the Ubuntu NBR and Moblin on my netbook. Both were very usable, but I could never get use to the interface. I guess, I just prefer the normal desktop.
I tried pretty much every major Linux out there when I first got my laptop. I played with Mandriva, Fedora, EEEbuntu, Easy Peasy, Ubuntu, OpenSuSe, Debian, Puppy, PCLinuxOS, and Moblin.
In my case, the biggest problem was having a small solid state drive instead of a normal hard drive. Many of the default distro installs left me with little space left. Which is not a good thing considering you need a lot of free space for the SSD's wear leveling to prevent premature disk failures.
Some of the other distros like Puppy worked great and used little space, but were a little too stripped down for my tastes.
Which is why in the end, I did a custom install of Debian Lenny using the Debian eepc project installer. I later upgraded it to squeeze using the LXDE desktop.
I tried pretty much every major Linux out there when I first got my laptop. I played with Mandriva, Fedora, EEEbuntu, Easy Peasy, Ubuntu, OpenSuSe, Debian, Puppy, PCLinuxOS, and Moblin.
In my case, the biggest problem was having a small solid state drive instead of a normal hard drive. Many of the default distro installs left me with little space left. Which is not a good thing considering you need a lot of free space for the SSD's wear leveling to prevent premature disk failures.
Some of the other distros like Puppy worked great and used little space, but were a little too stripped down for my tastes.
Which is why in the end, I did a custom install of Debian Lenny using the Debian eepc project installer. I later upgraded it to squeeze using the LXDE desktop.