Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Best netbook distro--opinions, anyone?

I run regular GNOME (Ubuntu 10.04) on my 900. It came with XP, but it is
dog. It runs fine but it takes too much maintenance for me. On Ubuntu I
change icon and font sizes (smaller) and get rid of the
bottom bar.

Roy

On 18 August 2010 06:48, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 04:25:58AM -0400, J wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 00:34, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com<scottro%40nyc.rr.com>>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > > I have FreeBSD on my 1000HE, but it took more work to get it going than
> > > it did with any of the mainstream Linux distributions.
> >
> > I would say that you are a sick, sick man, but yesterday I installed
> > and ran a small UEC cloud across a couple VBox VMs on my laptop...
> > what is wrong with me?
> >
>
> New boss, would like a BSD box or two, and due to this job, I've had no
> time to play with it. When he said that, my two co-workers said, "I
> don't think I've seen Scott this happy in years." It's my first love,
> and of course, one of the things it (generally) has over Linux is the
> documentation, which makes the more complex things much easier. I
> haven't, however, had much time to work with it, even at home, for a
> couple of years.
>
> It actually wasn't hard, it's just that it might be difficult for a
> newcomer, and due to the hplip port being somewhat broken, can't use it
> with my scanner, but aside from that--took only a little longer to set
> up than Fedora, though longer than Ubuntu. (Fedora, I do a minimal
> install and have to add everything afterwards, as I customize it
> heavily.)
>
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
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>
> Angel: Acathla turned to stone, as demons sometimes do, and
> was buried
> where neither man nor demon would want to look...unless, of course,
> they're
> putting up low-rent housing.
>
>

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