[ale] netbooks - what is good with Linux?

[Steve Tynor]

Ditto on the Asus Eee 901. I picked up a nice used one on Craigslist and 
put Easy Peasy (an Ubuntu netbook distribution) on it a few weeks ago.  
I've been very happy with it.  Small, not that slow, decent screen and 
suprisingly good battery life -- my only complaint is the keyboard, but 
that's entirely due to the form factor. 

Steve

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*From:* Thompson Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>
*Sent:* Jan 23, 2010, 9:44:51 PM -0500
*To:* "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
*Subject:* [ale] netbooks - what is good with Linux?

> On 01/23/2010 08:08:22 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
>   
>> to the group,
>>
>>    been looking at netbooks, and it looks like the
>> performance is
>> actually getting tolerable with the new N450
>> (which has hyperthreading). Curious regarding ALE'ers
>> opinions re
>> netbooks and Linux (particularly with Ubuntu).
>> Any particular brands to seek out or avoid?
>>
>>     
> I'm quite happy with the ASUS 901 I picked up last year.  
> Keyboard could be better, but for what I want it to do (be  
> portable web surf and emergency light word processing) it's  
> just fine. It's running Ubuntu happily.
>
> YMMV of course.
>
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