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From: Gerben on 13 Jan 2010 10:49
Neil Jones wrote:
> Ok, enough of venting. Now I want to know which hardware vendors are
> most Linux friendly?

I recently bought a HP Compaq 110c and installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix
9.10 on it. Works great, had only to install one extra .deb for the wifi
card. I can use it with a bluetooth dongle with my 3G phone and the
seupt for that (Blueman) was even easier than with the Nokia app for
Windows.

It's an Atom 270, 160 GB disk, 10.1" 1024x600 screen and cost me 199
euros excl tax. I can play 720p h264 movies on it with no stuttering,
use it as a mythtv frontend, and it seems you can change the 1GB dimm
for a 2GB dimm ( < 50 euros).

hope this helps

greetings

Gerben
From: notbob on 13 Jan 2010 10:53
On 2010-01-13, Gerben <theresnoplacelike(a)127.0.0.1> wrote:

> I recently bought a HP Compaq 110c and installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix
> 9.10 on it. Works great,

Excellent.

> It's an Atom 270, 160 GB disk, 10.1" 1024x600 screen.....

Did you do a dual boot setup or jes replaced Windows? I have a new
asus eee 1005ha with the same hardware specs, so may give ubuntu a
try if I can't get slackware to work.

nb
From: Gerben on 16 Jan 2010 04:27
notbob wrote:
> On 2010-01-13, Gerben <theresnoplacelike(a)127.0.0.1> wrote:
>
>> I recently bought a HP Compaq 110c and installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix
>> 9.10 on it. Works great,
>
> Excellent.
>
>> It's an Atom 270, 160 GB disk, 10.1" 1024x600 screen.....
>
> Did you do a dual boot setup or jes replaced Windows? I have a new
> asus eee 1005ha with the same hardware specs, so may give ubuntu a
> try if I can't get slackware to work.

In the installer I changed the ntfs partition to 35GB and gave UNR the
rest. I now see that I haven't booted XP since, but maybe I will find
apps that need it. Otherwise I'll use it as extra partition via
fuse-ntfs. Or something.

Gerben
From: notbob on 16 Jan 2010 10:25
On 2010-01-16, Gerben <theresnoplacelike(a)127.0.0.1> wrote:

> In the installer I changed the ntfs partition to 35GB and gave UNR the
> rest. I now see that I haven't booted XP since, but maybe I will find
> apps that need it. Otherwise I'll use it as extra partition via
> fuse-ntfs. Or something.

OK. Thanks.

I may go with UNR. Pays to know what the competition is up to. I'm
intensely curious about ubuntu and I've never gotten it to install on
my desktops (ancient hardware).

nb
From: AZ Nomad on 16 Jan 2010 21:40
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:25:40 GMT, notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> wrote:
>On 2010-01-16, Gerben <theresnoplacelike(a)127.0.0.1> wrote:

>> In the installer I changed the ntfs partition to 35GB and gave UNR the
>> rest. I now see that I haven't booted XP since, but maybe I will find
>> apps that need it. Otherwise I'll use it as extra partition via
>> fuse-ntfs. Or something.

>OK. Thanks.

>I may go with UNR. Pays to know what the competition is up to. I'm
>intensely curious about ubuntu and I've never gotten it to install on
>my desktops (ancient hardware).

That's impressive. I've yet to encounter a system more than 2 months
from bleeding edge that isn't trivial to instal any linux distro.
Are you using a defective CD burner?
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