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From: Tony Houghton on 7 Apr 2010 17:16
In <hpiopb$6or$2(a)localhost.localdomain>,
Martin Gregorie <martin(a)address-in-sig.invalid> wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:32:53 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>
>> On 07/04/10 20:20, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> Asked on behalf of a friend (I don't have an Eee or I wouldn't be
>>> asking).
>>>
>>> I friend has an early Eee (probably a 901 - I didn't check while it was
>>> in front of me) which he doesn't seem to have upgraded recently. Today
>>> we tried to do so but were unsuccessful.

[Snip]

>>> Can anybody suggest a way forward, such as a source for a new distro
>>> (CD and/or ISO image) that would run on it?
>>>
>>>
>> It's Ubuntu, isn't it?
>>
> I thought it was something Ausu had cooked up. Its Debian-based but apart
> from that it doesn't look much like Ubuntu. About all I know is that the
> recovery CD image (which presumably equates to a distro ISO) will fit on
> a 1GB flash card.
>
>> I'd go for
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook
>>
> Noted. Thanks.

The netbook version (UNR) does look quite different from normal because
of the specialised desktop, but I would have thought you'd still
recognies it as Ubuntu from all the brown/orange on display (although I
understand 10.04 uses a new colour scheme).

Mint is quite good on netbooks too; it has a normal windowing system in
case you don't like UNR's weirdness, but an excellent menu applet (the
likes of which should be adopted by GNOME and other distros IMO) which
takes up far less of your valuable panel space, and it only uses one
panel by default instead of two.

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From: Eamon Skelton on 8 Apr 2010 06:05
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:32:53 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

> It's Ubuntu, isn't it? I'd go for
> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook

The bundled OS is probably Xandros based. Some form of ...buntu would
probably be a better choice.


http://www.junauza.com/2009/12/10-netbook-oriented-linux-
distributions.html





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From: Daniel James on 8 Apr 2010 19:18
In article <hpiml0$6dv$1(a)localhost.localdomain>, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 07/04/10 20:20, Martin Gregorie wrote:
...
> > I friend has an early Eee (probably a 901 - I didn't check while it was
> > in front of me)
...
> It's Ubuntu, isn't it?

No, if it's an Asus running the original distro I think it will be Xandros.

Xandros is OK, but I eventually upgraded my 701 to Ubuntu (NOT the netbook
remix) and find I do much prefer it.

Cheers,
Daniel.



From: Geoff Clements on 9 Apr 2010 15:31
Martin Gregorie wrote:

[snip]

>
> Can anybody suggest a way forward, such as a source for a new distro (CD
> and/or ISO image) that would run on it?
>
>

I use version 3 of http://www.eeebuntu.org/ and am eagerly waiting for
version 4 to stabilise.

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Geoff
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