Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: I might replace Firefox with ???

Xandros on the eeePC isn't crippled. In fact it allows you to install
without even a password. It has an interface like Netbook Remix, but you can
switch to full GNOME quite easily. Synaptic is not installed but apg-get
works, so you can install it from the terminal. Then you have full Xandros
which is sub-par at best. I installed Ubuntu, but kept Xandros because it
boots so quickly (5 seconds) for email and web browsing.

I don't know what it is with netbook manufacturers installing little known
and poor quality Linux distros. You have to think that it would drive
anybody away from Linux. and get them crying out for Windows. Many would
have had a better experience if the put Ubuntu, Mint, PCLinuxOS or openSuSE
on in the first place.

Roy

On 24 March 2010 22:27, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:18:10PM -0400, Roy wrote:
> > Isn't Linpus crippled so that users can't install anything? There are
> hacks
> > that give you a password, but ordinary users are left with the system as
> it
> > is shipped. They can't add or remove.
>
> Oh Lawdy, it's crippled in myriads of ways. You get one user, who will
> use sudo. They can install things. I haven't used it now in over a
> year, so I've forgotten the details, but I remember even adding a user
> was problematic.
>
> I often wondered if it was almost deliberate on the netbook
> manufacturers' part. Not only Acer, but MSI, and a few others,
> including Asus, would offer netbooks with Linux, but it was always a
> modified version that didn't work as well as the real thing. Actually,
> ASUS might have done the best with Xandros, but from what I understand,
> their Xandros was a bit crippled too.
>
> Dell, and one other--Syvania?--offered vanilla Ubuntu--I think Dell
> still does--and one other offered GOS. I think in other parts of the
> world, Linux netbooks are still readily available, but here in the US,
> they've become hard to find. Which isn't a big deal save for the MS
> tax--I just wipe Windows and install various flavors---or flavours as
> you Canadians would write--of Linux.
>
> Actually, I mentioned this in my Amazon review of the 1005HA, and
> someone asked how easy or difficult Ubuntu would be, and would it be a
> better choice than Windows. So, there are signs here and there, if
> Linux would only stop shooting itself in the foot. (For example, around
> the 2.6.29-2.6.31 kernels, they really messed up the Atheros driver,
> making the wireless on many netbooks almost unusable. )
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
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> ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
>
> Cordelia: What's her saga?
> Xander: She's freaking.
> Cordelia: About what?
> Xander: The mayor is gonna kill us all during graduation.
> Cordelia: Oh. Are you gonna go to 5th period?
>
>

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