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From: Greg Russell on 20 Jul 2010 16:31 "Allodoxaphobia" <knock_yourself_out(a)example.net> wrote in message news:slrni49ljn.ilv.knock_yourself_out(a)shell.config.com... >> Does anyone have actual experience with any such devices that you'd >> recommend, please? > > http://zareason.com/shop/product.php?productid=16216 > > Have owned one since December last year. I'm happy with it. > The folks there are pleasant to deal with. I have to agree with that, as my call to them met with intelligent answers to my several questions, so I chose the Terra HD with 2 GB RAM, 500 GB HD, slim USB DVD-RW, 6-cell battery and colored red for easy ID. A little bigger than I was thinking, but we all have our sacrifices to make for our needed functionality. It will be here by Friday, so I'm eagerly anticipating its arrival so that I can load and compile the applications I regularly need and use. Thanks everyone for your very welcomed opinions in the matter.
From: Sidney Lambe on 20 Jul 2010 17:51 On comp.os.linux.misc, Dave {Reply Address In.Sig} <noone$$@llondel.org> wrote: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" > From: "Dave {Reply Address In.Sig}" <noone$$@llondel.org> > Organization: the bus stop > User-Agent: KNode/4.4.3 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit > X-No-Archive: Yes It's a good post that belongs in the archives. > Subject: Re: small Linux laptop/netbook recommendations? > Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc > References: <8fe77$4c44aa3d$943f966e$27036(a)STARBAND.NET> <r3ueh7-821.ln1(a)murmur.very.softly> > Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc > Lines: 23 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Message-ID: <48rfh7-v5c.ln1(a)llondel.org> > NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:15:03 UTC > Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:10:44 +0100 > Path: x-privat.org!news.doubleslash.org!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!open-news-network.org!feeder.news-service.com!cyclone01.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf02.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe11.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail > Xref: newsfeed.x-privat.org comp.os.linux.misc:83597 > > Rikishi42 wrote: > >> On 2010-07-19, Greg Russell <me(a)invalid.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm in the market for a small, wireless Linux "laptop" or >>> "netbook" that uses a current, upgradeable distro. >>> >>> Does anyone have actual experience with any such devices that >>> you'd recommend, please? >> >> I use Mint Linux on a Eee PC. Very nice. >> >> Might try switching it to openSUSE next, but only because I >> run that on most of my other machines. > > > I've got Linux Mint on a couple of Aspire One machines and it's > good. Choose the LXDE build rather than Gnome or KDE though. > > As a general guide, on a netbook try to avoid the bloated X > options and go for a cut-down one. XFCE is another good one to > try (Xubuntu, for example). > > -- > Dave > So many gadgets, so little time. You mean: So much selfishness, so little conscience. Sid
From: felmon on 20 Jul 2010 19:02 On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:53:31 +0200, Rikishi42 wrote: > I use Mint Linux on a Eee PC. Very nice. > > Might try switching it to openSUSE next, but only because I run that on > most of my other machines. I installed 'Mint' on a Samsung N150 without any problems. I haven't been using it that much but so far, everything I have used functions without fuss: wireless, sound, graphics. did a standard install and it's fast enough for use but I did put a 2GB chip in it. Felmon
From: John Thompson on 21 Jul 2010 00:06 On 2010-07-20, The Natural Philosopher <tnp(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > there are issues with Intel graphics yes. Most of them are superable. > > I've got integrated Intel shitset on this, and there are some strange > issues..odd bits of screen not quite being right, but its usable. As you > can see. > > Acer stuff seems very Linux compliant. The laptop runs it fine, no problems. No problems on my Acer Aspire-One. I did find some significant graphics performance gain with the built-in Intel chipset by changing Option "AccelMethod" from "exa" to "uxa" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, though. -- -John (john(a)os2.dhs.org)
From: Darren Salt on 21 Jul 2010 07:40
I demand that John Thompson may or may not have written... [snip] > I did find some significant graphics performance gain with the built-in > Intel chipset by changing Option "AccelMethod" from "exa" to "uxa" in > /etc/X11/xorg.conf, though. Older xf86-video-intel? EXA support was removed last year (in 2.8, I think). -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Toon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | back! | + Lobby friends, family, business, government. WE'RE KILLING THE PLANET. Memes are a hoax - pass it on. |